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| From | Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics.relativity |
| Subject | Re: Failures in reasoning |
| Date | 2018-12-17 22:22 +1100 |
| Message-ID | <g7pf78F4raiU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <g7obfsFs3npU1@mid.individual.net> <35336bd8-0a82-4a69-bb0d-9cfdfc44e4f3@googlegroups.com> |
On 17/12/2018 2:56 pm, Gary Harnagel wrote: > On Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 6:12:32 PM UTC-7, Sylvia Else wrote: >> >> Many here have probably wondered why some seem to think in a different >> way. Well, there's a possible answer. >> >> https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/12/08/what-psychology-experiments-tell-you-about-why-people-deny-facts > > Interesting. Of course, one who doesn't want to hear arguments from the > other side may (1) just don't want to think cogently (as suggested in piece), > (2) may have already heard all the arguments and refuted them in their > own minds or (3) think they already know it all (whether they do or don't). > So conclusions from such tests depend upon the belief systems of those > doing the testing. > I haven't read the detail of the tests, but the wording of the article suggests to me that the tests were along the lines of Given dataset x, how much does y affect z. The conclusion should only be a function of quantities involved, not what they are quantities of, and does not depend on the views of the experimenters. Sylvia.
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Failures in reasoning Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2018-12-17 12:12 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2018-12-17 12:47 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2018-12-16 18:25 -0800
Re: Failures in reasoning "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-12-17 15:51 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2018-12-18 09:13 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-12-19 12:16 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2018-12-19 12:27 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-12-19 14:15 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2018-12-19 14:56 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-12-19 15:49 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2018-12-20 07:36 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2018-12-19 12:53 -0800
Re: Failures in reasoning "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-12-20 14:45 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2018-12-20 15:58 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-12-20 17:23 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2018-12-21 09:50 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-12-21 15:16 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2018-12-22 09:51 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-12-22 10:25 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2018-12-22 10:47 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-12-22 13:57 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2018-12-16 19:56 -0800
Re: Failures in reasoning Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2018-12-17 22:22 +1100
Re: Failures in reasoning mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2018-12-17 04:51 -0800
Re: Failures in reasoning JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2018-12-17 14:37 -0800
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