How Bias Bends Fact, Ctd

by Patrick Appel

Digby reflects on this article:

It turns out that our brains are designed to create "cognitiveshortcuts" to cope with the rush of information which I'm guessing ismore important than ever in this new age. I'm also guessing one ofthese "cognitive shortcuts" is trusting in certain tribalidentification and shared "worldview" to make things easier to sortout, which is why things are getting hyperpartisan and polarized inthis time of information overload. (And sadly, one of the...