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catskul2 | 1 year ago

Everyone, every last one of us, does this every single day, all day, and only occasionally do we deviate to check ourselves, and often then it's to save face.

A Nobel prize was given for related research to Daniel Kahneman.

If you think it doesn't apply to you, you're definitely wrong.

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mdp2021|1 year ago

> occasionally

Properly educated people do it regularly, not occasionally. You are describing a definite set of people. No, it does not cover all.

Some people will output a pre-given answer; some people check.

Edit: sniper... Find some argument.

famouswaffles|1 year ago

Your decisions shape your preferences just as much as your preferences shape your decisions and you're not even aware of it. Yes, everybody regularly confabulates plausible sounding things that they themselves genuinely believe to be the 'real reason'. You're not immune or special.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3196841/

mdp2021|1 year ago

By the way: I have seldom come across a post so weak.

> every last one of us

And how do you prove it.

> A Nobel prize was given

So?

> If you think, you

Prove it.

Support it, at least. That is not discussion.