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Obama Doesn't Have It And It May Be Too Late to Get It

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by glynch, Aug 29, 2010.

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  1. Steve_Francis_rules

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    I thought inflation was not at all a problem right now.
     
    #61 Steve_Francis_rules, Aug 30, 2010
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    People believe it because it sounds reasonable to them or falls in line with their pre-conceived notions. They either don't pay attention or discredit the results when it's proven false.
     
    #62 Steve_Francis_rules, Aug 30, 2010
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    The Confirmation Bias

    In general, we have an automatic tendency to pay attention to or seek out information that is in agreement with (confirms) our preconceptions, and to ignore, distort, or avoid information that contradicts (disconfirms) our preconceptions, a tendency that is called the confirmation bias. The confirmation bias serves to maintain and strengthen the beliefs that we already hold by causing us to automatically (that is, without being aware that we are doing so) perceive and remember experiences that confirm these beliefs, and to ignore or reinterpret those that disconfirm them. Because we tend to seek out only confirming evidence, our beliefs over time become so well confirmed in our minds that we come to think of them as "obviously true." In order to avoid the confirmation bias, we must force ourselves to look for evidence that disconfirms our beliefs.

    It's Ottoman 101.
     
    #63 Dubious, Aug 30, 2010
  4. glynch

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    By funding think tanks that make working people like you feel you are better off with small tax breaks when state tuitions go up at a dizzying rate, the rich make a lot off wars, but your taxes go up for veteran's care and war, you pay increased taxes for indigent health care for workers who used to have good union jobs that the rich owners sent over to China, interpretting ERISA laws such that companies can trash their pensions or not pay their long disability policies, by letting Golman Sachs tout investments they bet against so that you lose in your 401(k) which is what they let you have after your pension is taken away.
     
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    You should then be absolutely enraged by the GOP.
     
    #65 glynch, Aug 30, 2010
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    No...you assumed that they were doing so "out of frustration." There are many other explanations. For example, thinking that there are things more important than yourself and supporting causes because you think it is good for the nation long term rather than just looking out for number one.
     
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    I posted an entire thread about this the day after Obama was elected.
     
    #67 Refman, Aug 30, 2010
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    Pensions being trashed had little to do with ERISA and the wealthy and everything to do with the Financial Accounting Standards Board making the accounting for pensions go topsy turvy...therefore most companies did away with them. I remember being a young accounting major thinking "wow...that makes no sense."
     
    #68 Refman, Aug 30, 2010
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    I wonder who's the douche bag who repped this post so that he could call me a freeloading leech on the system and a chump without anyone else seeing what an ass he is.
     
    #69 Steve_Francis_rules, Aug 30, 2010
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