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Comment by larsonian

17 hours ago

Mostly by way of confirmation bias.

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Muromec  17 hours ago

if it works often enough to be a good heuristic, it's not really a bias until somebody uses it adversly

  • larsonian  1 hour ago

    It is used adversely all the time by all sorts of propaganda. And no, you're not a special enlightened snowflake whose priors are so fine-tuned that your confirmation bias only lets true facts through.

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