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09-18-13, 05:50 PM #52
Re: Partisanship versus reason
That's what i got out of it as i read it. I just went back to re-read it, just in case i was missing some amazing satire. Nope, that author failed.... and I'm reasonably sure he really doesn't know he did. As for the study, i agree that its well written and non-partisan. Anyway, its pretty fascinating stuff, i just love psychology.
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09-18-13, 06:11 PM #53
Re: Partisanship versus reason
Nope. Paraphrased
Originally Posted by Lazarus
Sent via highly charged bolt of electricity.Last edited by Alundil; 09-18-13 at 06:12 PM.
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09-18-13, 06:31 PM #54
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This administration? Really? You blaming the economic spiral on 6 years of administration? This must be the fastest and hardest working government administration to make things happen in such a small time-frame.
You and I both know that the economy is falling due to decades of shit policy, not just 6 years.
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09-18-13, 07:00 PM #55
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09-18-13, 07:29 PM #57
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Because the article, and author, is shit. Whereas the study is decidedly not.
The study deals with rashes and gun crimes, not for the merit of the topics themselves, but rather for the ideological involvement that those topics might engender. Specifically: no one is going to have deep seated ideological principles regarding skin cream efficacy and rashes, whereas a large majority of people will have at least some ideological principles regarding gun ban efficacy and crime.
The point was to force people (without their knowledge) into having to do detailed analysis on topics that they both cared deeply about and couldn't car less about ideologically speaking.
This creates the scenario (born out in the data) that people, even highly intelligent people, of both major partisan groups, will choose data/results that affirm their partisan ideological biases and preconceptions even if that data is flat out wrong in an overwhelming majority of instances.
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09-18-13, 08:20 PM #60
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Yes. Really. There are actions that can be taken to quickly right the ship but this President has not pushed for that at all. We can debate whether decades of shit policy from got us there before Obama was elected, but now Obama has failed to make any difference. In fact, things are much, much worse than before he came along, in no small part due to his policies. I think either you underestimate how fast economies can move, or you're just not willing to recognize the flaws in this administration's handling of the economy.
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