<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Is there a confirmation bias among people who believe in confirmation bias?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That is, are they "<font color="#323333" face="Georgia" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">urged to believe only things that confirm what they already believe to be true” - notably, the prevalence of confirmation bias?</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#323333" face="Georgia" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#323333" face="Georgia" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">There may be a risk of infinite regress here (i.e., a confirmation bias in favor of a confirmation bias for the prevalence of confirmation bias - und so weiter...) that may consume itself, Phoenix-like, and leave us only ashes. </span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#323333" face="Georgia" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#323333" face="Georgia" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">That may suggest we attend more to the substance of the beliefs rather than to the psychology of those who hold them. </span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#323333" face="Georgia" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#323333" face="Georgia" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">Ideas are not responsible for the people who believe in them. —CGE</span></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2017, at 7:57 PM, Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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