![]() ![]() ![]() I don't particularly like his descriptive analogies, but their meanings are solid. Unfortunately, Haidt makes a very convincing and well-researched argument showing us how we are all led by our noses. We try very hard to do the right thing all the time. Over and over, we're constantly reminded of bias, of selective reasoning, of checking our assumptions, of realizing that not only our memories but our very foundation of knowing a thing is based on a lie.Īnd it's not like we do it on purpose. Unfortunately, this is proven to be the means of how almost every single one of us uses reason. That feeling of rightness then leads us to find reasons and arguments why it is so. Automatic groupings based on similarities tend to almost ALWAYS lead every single one of us to post hoc reasoning.Įveryone jumps to conclusions based on their intuition. There were many points as I was reading this that I had to check my assumptions and back down. ![]()
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