The Onion Goes Inside The Biased Mind

post by patrissimo · 2009-05-30T17:33:15.038Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 3 comments

A great piece from The Onion, inside the mind of someone arguing emotionally:  Oh, No! It's Making Well-Reasoned Arguments Backed With Facts! Run!

Pure genius.

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comment by nazgulnarsil · 2009-05-31T08:49:06.548Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

the problem with this sort of thing is that no one ever thinks that they're the ones being irrational. things like confirmation bias in particular lead people to think that they're making well reasoned arguments backed with facts.

comment by PhilGoetz · 2009-05-31T23:45:19.783Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Actually, I more highly recommend this:

Boy with freakish brain wins spelling bee

comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Eliezer_Yudkowsky) · 2009-05-30T18:05:28.574Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

'tis a fine link, but you should just link, not reproduce the text of the article. Copyright issues, Google detecting spam blog issues. I've taken the liberty of editing, hope you don't mind.