November 3rd, 2011 at 8:45:50 PM
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I thought this was a very good article, especially as I've made all five of the fallacies right here (and so probably have YOU) :
Article
In order
#5. We're Not Programmed to Seek "Truth," We're Programmed to "Win"
#4. Our Brains Don't Understand Probability
#3. We Think Everyone's Out to Get Us
#2. We're Hard-Wired to Have a Double Standard
#1. Facts Don't Change Our Minds
Article
In order
#5. We're Not Programmed to Seek "Truth," We're Programmed to "Win"
#4. Our Brains Don't Understand Probability
#3. We Think Everyone's Out to Get Us
#2. We're Hard-Wired to Have a Double Standard
#1. Facts Don't Change Our Minds
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829