{"id":33835,"date":"2021-08-02T19:47:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T00:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33835"},"modified":"2021-08-02T19:47:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T00:47:46","slug":"confirmation-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/02\/confirmation-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my far-right readers, HuffPost<\/strong><\/em> has a report<\/a> that titillates<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows<\/a>\u00a0has been meeting with former President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a> and \u201cCabinet members\u201d about plans to \u201cmove forward in a real way,\u201d he claimed in a Newsmax interview on Friday.<\/p>\n

He refused to divulge the specifics of plans being discussed with Trump \u2014 whom he referred to as \u201cthe president\u201d \u2014 at the former president\u2019s Bedminster golf club<\/a> in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Trump is \u201ca president who is fully engaged, highly focused and remaining on task,\u201d Meadows insisted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met with several of our Cabinet members tonight, we actually had a follow-up … meeting with some of our Cabinet members, and … we\u2019re looking at what does come next,\u201d Meadows said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Confirmation bias<\/em> is the tendency to believe information that conforms to one’s beliefs and desires, and not attempt to confirm it. It’s an insidious, a-political mind rot that can affect anyone, from scientist to pastor.<\/p>\n

As a service to my readers, here’s an experiment that you can perform to test the plausibility of the suggestion that the former President is not former<\/em> but rather still the President:<\/p>\n

If he was still the President, would he have permitted the nomination and confirmation of individuals favored by liberal groups to the Federal judiciary?<\/em><\/p>\n

Keep in mind that every attempt to wiggle around this question marks you as an individual whose mental state is deteriorated and uncongruent with reality.<\/p>\n

Once you’ve finished chewing on that question, consider the opposite conjecture: The conservatives are simply looking for one more grifter squeeze of the conservative base. Does that strike you as unlikely or likely?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my far-right readers, HuffPost has a report that titillates: Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows\u00a0has been meeting with former President\u00a0Donald Trump and \u201cCabinet members\u201d about plans to \u201cmove forward in a real way,\u201d he claimed in a Newsmax interview on Friday. He refused to divulge the specifics \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33836,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835\/revisions\/33836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}