Comments on: The Tablo Story: A Disturbing Case of Motivated Reasoning and the Internet http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/07/27/the-tablostory-a-horrifying-case-of-motivated-reasoning-and-the-internet/ Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Dan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/07/27/the-tablostory-a-horrifying-case-of-motivated-reasoning-and-the-internet/#comment-55746 Dan Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:39:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=19797#comment-55746 And in the Philippines, Hubert Webb spent more than ten years behind bars after being convicted for killing a family of three women, even though records show he was in the US when the crime was committed in the Philippines. Not even authentication by the American State Department of his visit swayed the lower courts. He was eventually freed by the PHL Supreme Court but a lot of people here still would not believe what the records say. To them, the US Government is in cahoots with the Webb family. And in the Philippines, Hubert Webb spent more than ten years behind bars after being convicted for killing a family of three women, even though records show he was in the US when the crime was committed in the Philippines. Not even authentication by the American State Department of his visit swayed the lower courts. He was eventually freed by the PHL Supreme Court but a lot of people here still would not believe what the records say. To them, the US Government is in cahoots with the Webb family.

]]> By: Brian Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/07/27/the-tablostory-a-horrifying-case-of-motivated-reasoning-and-the-internet/#comment-55745 Brian Too Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:06:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=19797#comment-55745 @3. Johnny, It's the feared rapper education gap! We must immediately launch a crash upgrading program to establish scholarly rap superiority!! Otherwise Korea might take the hip out of our hip-hop!!! ;-) What? Oh. @3. Johnny,

It’s the feared rapper education gap! We must immediately launch a crash upgrading program to establish scholarly rap superiority!! Otherwise Korea might take the hip out of our hip-hop!!! ;-)

What? Oh.

]]> By: Johnny http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/07/27/the-tablostory-a-horrifying-case-of-motivated-reasoning-and-the-internet/#comment-55744 Johnny Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:32:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=19797#comment-55744 Chris Mooney didn't really go to Yale University. His degree is fake. You heard it here first. :) Satire aside, what kind of country is korea where they care about their favorite rapper's post docs? I mean I know that they take education seriously, but wow. American rappers are exceedingly unqualified it seems. Chris Mooney didn’t really go to Yale University. His degree is fake. You heard it here first. :)

Satire aside, what kind of country is korea where they care about their favorite rapper’s post docs? I mean I know that they take education seriously, but wow.

American rappers are exceedingly unqualified it seems.

]]> By: Prof.Pedant http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/07/27/the-tablostory-a-horrifying-case-of-motivated-reasoning-and-the-internet/#comment-55743 Prof.Pedant Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:44:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=19797#comment-55743 "When is humanity going, like, to wake up and realize that it is part of our nature to generate claims that comport with what we want to believe, and then refuse to admit any contrary evidence, often becoming even more sure of ourselves the more the factual refutations come in?" Where I disagree with you is not in acknowledging that this, and other unproductive, characteristics exist. You appear to feel that because characteristics like this are part of our nature we should not attempt to support the rationality and reason that is available to people. I acknowledge imperfections in humanity and seek to understand them so that we can do an even better job of striving for perfection. “When is humanity going, like, to wake up and realize that it is part of our nature to generate claims that comport with what we want to believe, and then refuse to admit any contrary evidence, often becoming even more sure of ourselves the more the factual refutations come in?”

Where I disagree with you is not in acknowledging that this, and other unproductive, characteristics exist. You appear to feel that because characteristics like this are part of our nature we should not attempt to support the rationality and reason that is available to people. I acknowledge imperfections in humanity and seek to understand them so that we can do an even better job of striving for perfection.

]]> By: Sam McNerney http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/07/27/the-tablostory-a-horrifying-case-of-motivated-reasoning-and-the-internet/#comment-55742 Sam McNerney Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:41:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=19797#comment-55742 Sounds like a heavy dose of confirmation bias. Sounds like a heavy dose of confirmation bias.

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