"you might not have looked carefully into the mechanisms behind these phenomena"
(beat.) Send a noteboard - 13/05/2010 06:45:43 PM
It's like something you didn't really know you already knew, and what really interests me is the "solutions" these people found.
This!, this is important stuff. To just make sure you don't get so stuck on an opinion that you make it impossible for yourself to go back on it.
Actually, I think it's more than anything habitual. It's often too hard to change your position after several years - even decades - of holding it. You've made that position part of who you are by then. :/
when we take a position on little or no data we can't be afraid to reverse it
This!, this is important stuff. To just make sure you don't get so stuck on an opinion that you make it impossible for yourself to go back on it.
ypically I become more intractable the longer and more deeply I hold a given view, and I think most do, but that's probably more than anything because if we care enough about it to give that much time and attention, and our position remains the same, we'll have a large mass of data reinforcing it.
Actually, I think it's more than anything habitual. It's often too hard to change your position after several years - even decades - of holding it. You've made that position part of who you are by then. :/
"All the worlds are in the sky
and some of them keep me from falling."
-- Charlie Mystery, age 5
and some of them keep me from falling."
-- Charlie Mystery, age 5
Cached Selves. (post stolen from another board)
- 13/05/2010 08:39:42 AM
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It may be time for a good Style vs Content Debate.
- 13/05/2010 08:47:54 AM
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There's a difference between pseudonymity and anonymity.
- 13/05/2010 08:56:51 AM
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I both realize and try to account for it; really just a generalized case of something well known.
- 13/05/2010 03:14:32 PM
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"you might not have looked carefully into the mechanisms behind these phenomena"
- 13/05/2010 06:45:43 PM
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Just for you.
- 13/05/2010 05:33:29 PM
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It will perhaps amuse you to know that I have indeed contacted such a business.
- 13/05/2010 06:31:38 PM
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Cognitive Dissonance is a well documented effect but it has a lot of problems too.
- 14/05/2010 12:40:42 AM
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