hese deeply moral suppositions have a certain spiritual dimension.
Interesting that nobody has commented on this one. I believe any morals views can be traced back to religion. Even atheists believe in things that their religious ancestors have taught them over the decades.
There is simply not enough evidence that allows me to infer that things are going to get better.
I believe us as a race constantly will get better in some things that we highlight like race problems, but at the same time we will always get worse in others. We will be in a constant cycle comparable to a cartoon goofy plugging one hole in a leak only for another to pop up.
I got it right. Indeed, when I emailed my completed test, Nisbett replied, “My guess is that very few if any UM seniors did as well as you. I’m sure at least some psych students, at least after 2 years in school, did as well. But note that you came fairly close to a perfect score.”
Even this writer has biased with himself thinking he is one of the more smart individuals. How is this affecting the paper?
when testing a hypothesis they’re inclined to believe, is to seek examples confirming it.
facts like this make me question everything. how can we trust any news outlets or science studies when everything is biased!
the law of large numbers, which holds that outlier results are much more frequent when the sample size (at bats, in this case) is small.
Statistics is vital in helping us grow our minds and opening our way of thinking to more in the world. Maybe instead of teaching kids critical thinking earlier on, we need to teach them statistics.
To understand that I shouldn’t believe my lying eyes.
It is interesting that we attribute one of the best and most reliable ways to obtain facts is with our eyes, and what we can see. But in many ways our eyes can be tricked just as much as other sources of info we get that we would not trust as much.
Optimism bias leads us to consistently underestimate the costs and the duration of basically every project we undertake
I never thought of optimism as a bias. this will change how i view things.
from actor-observer bias
This Bias is one of the most common ones where some people think an actor they like can do no wrong, and some people will always think a certain actor ruins a movie. The film industry is built on this bias.
Present bias shows up not just in experiments, of course, but in the real world. Especially in the United States, people egregiously undersave for retirement—even when they make enough money to not spend their whole paycheck on expenses, and even when they work for a company that will kick in additional funds to retirement plans when they contribute.
This is shocking to me! I always assumed as a kid that people were good at saving from retirement, but from what I've learned from how humans work, it's very hard to work hard NOW and only see the benefits LATER.
Democracies must promote citizen engagement. To prevent a second nationalist and anti-establishment wave in response to months of restrictions on individual freedoms, states should make a broader effort to promote citizens’ participation through virtual or in-person platforms for dialogue between citizens and their representatives.
In what ways could our country promote citizen engagement? Is this simply referring to asking the population what THEY think the restrictions should be?
need for mass surveillance,
How is mass servallience needed from what COVID-19 has caused? There are little reasons for it unless the government would want to MAKE SURE who has contact with who, but in general, countries have done a good job of self quarantining and taking care of themselves.
and all complain about the lockdown measures imposed by the government.
Nobody likes to be held captive inside their homes, but was this the right call? Was there another way? If not, what was the point of complaining?
In France, the government decided to maintain the first round of municipal elections on March 15, even though the virus was already taking a toll. This led to low turnout (abstention climbed almost 20 points since 2014 to a record 55.4% in 2020) and a heavy political penalty for the government.5Two days after voters went to the polls, the country entered a lockdown. The second round finally took place on June 28, registering once again record abstention (only 41.6% participation), reflective of both a political crisis but also of high fears of the pandemic
What are the implications of a public vote where over half the population does not?