https://motherjones.com/politics/201...e-chris-mooney
- including a quote from one of my favorite researchers:
the article points out that when analyzing arguments, we tend to find the ones leading to conclusions we share as more convincing. Taken to extremes, you could say that people can't really reach a decision on new facts - you have to already be right to know which side of an argument is correct. So that's a relief to me; it means I can tell I'm right without bothering to follow the argument.... or something along those lines. I guess you'll just have to read the article.to use an analogy offered by University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt: We may think we're being scientists, but we're actually being lawyers