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Study shows conservatism = fear in the brain

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12-30-2010 2:53 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Taz
12-30-2010 2:27 AM

the article says:
The research was carried out by scientists at University College London, who scanned the brains of two members of parliament and 90 students.
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That's hardly a good sample to draw any conclusion from.
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then it later continues:
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Talking about the experiment, Firth said: I took this on as a fairly frivolous exercise: I just decided to find out what was biologically wrong with people who don't agree with me and see what scientists had to say about it and they actually came up with something.
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WHOA! Confirmation bias, anyone? What was "wrong" with people who didn't agree with him?
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Edited by xongsmith, : knee jerk reading a little further
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- xongsmith, 5.7d
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12-30-2010 5:24 PM 		Reply to: Message 4 by Dr Adequate
12-30-2010 4:53 AM

Russian Dolls of confirmation bias
The Good Doctor asks:
What do you think "confirmation bias" means?
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Confirmation bias to me, before I look at any dictionary of these sorts of terms (because that would be Cheating!):
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The tendency to view data supporting your initial opinion with more confidence and to find more fault in the integrity of data not supporting your initial opinion, even to the point of discounting it entirely at times, while overlooking similar faults with what you perceive as supporting data.
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Is this a test? Just as I was fairly sure to myself when I posted #2 of this thread that I was on the right track, and thus buried in a cloud of confirmation bias there, so it is here as well!
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