{"id":8467,"date":"2011-04-19T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8467"},"modified":"2011-04-19T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T08:00:30","slug":"we-are-ready-to-not-believe-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8467","title":{"rendered":"We Are Ready to Not Believe You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2011\/03\/denial-science-chris-mooney?page=1\">The Science of Why We Don&#8217;t Believe Science<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In other words, when we think we&#8217;re reasoning, we may instead be rationalizing. Or to use an analogy offered by University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt: We may think we&#8217;re being scientists, but we&#8217;re actually being lawyers. Our &#8220;reasoning&#8221; is a means to a predetermined end\u2014winning our &#8220;case&#8221;\u2014and is shot through with biases. They include &#8220;confirmation bias,&#8221; in which we give greater heed to evidence and arguments that bolster our beliefs, and &#8220;disconfirmation bias,&#8221; in which we expend disproportionate energy trying to debunk or refute views and arguments that we find uncongenial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Short version:  you can&#8217;t use logic and reason to talk someone out of a position they didn&#8217;t arrive at using logic and reason.<\/p>\n<p>I think it points a way for arguments like global warming.  I don&#8217;t understand why energy independence isn&#8217;t being trumpeted more loudly as a goal, with the goal of improving our economic situation and that of national security \u2014 importing less oil to keep more money in the US and eliminate foreign dependence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Science of Why We Don&#8217;t Believe Science In other words, when we think we&#8217;re reasoning, we may instead be rationalizing. Or to use an analogy offered by University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt: We may think we&#8217;re being scientists, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}