{"id":125,"date":"2006-08-08T19:57:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T03:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/business-success\/confirmational-bias"},"modified":"2006-08-09T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:46:51","slug":"confirmational-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Confirmational Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article from Scientific American <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?SID=mail&#038;articleID=000CE155-1061-1493-906183414B7F0162&#038;chanID=sa006\">(The Political Brain)<\/a> reviews a study confirming that people tend to look for information that support their beliefs and dismiss arguments that contradict them.  The amazing thing it found was that we don&#8217;t even use the reasoning center of our brains after we make up our minds about a subject.  This is one of the explainations of why I&#8217;m having so much trouble gettting any traction with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radicalmigration.com\/\">The Right to Migrate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1578517095\/sr=1-1\/qid=1155095760\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-4589083-9931213?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\">Changing Minds<\/a> by Howard Gardner talks about the the difficulty of changing peoples minds.  This new study helps explains why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from Scientific American (The Political Brain) reviews a study confirming that people tend to look for information that support their beliefs and dismiss arguments that contradict them. The amazing thing it found was that we don&#8217;t even use the reasoning center of our brains after we make up our minds about a subject. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}