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Found this article this morning and thought some people on here might enjoy parts of this specific blog post. It was done by Harriet Hall at Science Based Medicine. Taking it wholesale doesn't seem to translate well into this forums format, so I'm just going to let y'all click over to it. It's great little read that highlights a book that sheds light on many urban legends that have a psychological basis. Some of these I've gone through life thinking that they were true, but it turns out they aren't I guess. Especially the teaching/learning methods ones. Happy reading.
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WOW!!!!!!
just starting to read the article....and SO MUCH of this can be directly related to the current situation with the Browns and the Fans Preception of it....
from the article:
The authors start with a chapter explaining how myths and misconceptions arise.
1. Word of mouth. If we hear something repeated enough times, we tend to believe it.
2. Desire for easy answers and quick fixes.
3. Selective perception and memory. We remember our hits and forget our misses.
4. Inferring causation from correlation.
5.Post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning.
6. Exposure to a biased sample. Psychologists overestimate the difficulty of stopping smoking because they only see patients who come to them for help, not the many who stop on their own.
7. Reasoning by representativeness – evaluating the similarity between two things on the basis of superficial resemblance.
8. Misleading film and media portrayals.
9. Exaggeration of a kernel of truth.
10. Terminological confusion. Because of the etymology of the word schizophrenia, many people confuse it with multiple personality disorder.
I thought I was wrong once....but I was mistaken...
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WOW!!!!!!
just starting to read the article....and SO MUCH of this can be directly related to the current situation with the Browns and the Fans Preception of it....
from the article:
The authors start with a chapter explaining how myths and misconceptions arise.
1. Word of mouth. If we hear something repeated enough times, we tend to believe it.
2. Desire for easy answers and quick fixes.
3. Selective perception and memory. We remember our hits and forget our misses.
4. Inferring causation from correlation.
5.Post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning.
6. Exposure to a biased sample. Psychologists overestimate the difficulty of stopping smoking because they only see patients who come to them for help, not the many who stop on their own.
7. Reasoning by representativeness – evaluating the similarity between two things on the basis of superficial resemblance.
8. Misleading film and media portrayals.
9. Exaggeration of a kernel of truth.
10. Terminological confusion. Because of the etymology of the word schizophrenia, many people confuse it with multiple personality disorder.
Are you sure all this didn't come from Democratic Party's mission statement?  
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8. Misleading film and media portrayals.
That's the big one for me. I can't count the number of people who think that something they saw in a movie was "gospel" to the real thing ... especially the "based on a true story" ones, that sometimes are nothing more than: "we kept the names and the final outcome, but made up the rest".
News is just as bad, as it used to be something that you could really trust to get nothing but researched facts. However with the advent of so many different media types, instant reporting and a 24 hour news cycle ... conjecture and opinion has replaced what once was solid reporting. However, since people are used to news from the past, they'll still believe anything they see in print ... or even worse ... anything they see on the internet.
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You mean Angelina Jolie didn't really have a 3-headed martian baby last week?
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
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Well you know a lot of that comes from
2. Desire for easy answers and quick fixes.
We have become a society in need of instant gratification....There is zero patience and no thought to the affects of actions over the long haul.....If we concentrated more on the long haul..and less on our own instant gratification....then we might have more sensible solutions to our problems...
But as in all things there must also be a balance...you can't always sacrifice the present for the future or the future will never be(because you continually sacrifice it...) so just the opposite is true. At this time, though, we are so far to the instant gratification side of the see saw we can't even see the fulcrum in the middle.....
I thought I was wrong once....but I was mistaken...
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Are you sure all this didn't come from Democratic Party's mission statement?
Or for that matter, the Republican Party mission statement 
#GMSTRONG
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"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe."
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Are you sure all this didn't come from Democratic Party's mission statement?
Or for that matter, the Republican Party mission statement
I think the point was that every person is guilty of those at one point or another and it should be recognized by others when it's done by someone. 
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I think the point was that every person is guilty of those at one point or another and it should be recognized by others when it's done by someone.
YEah,, I know.. thus the end of my comment... I wish we had a graemlin for sarcasm.....
#GMSTRONG
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Just trying to disarm anything that might flair up  I'd hate for this to turn into a "who commits the least number of logical fallacies and is therefore correct" type of political thing is all.
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