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04-23-2011, 03:52 PM | #1 |
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We need to be right
In this TED Talk, Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting and embracing being wrong. The following bit I pulled out and posted separately on YouTube. Because you see people doing this all the time on the Internets!
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04-23-2011, 06:31 PM | #2 |
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You sir are ignorant, an idiot and malevolent.
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04-23-2011, 08:35 PM | #3 |
still says videotape
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You people are like that all the time.
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04-24-2011, 09:41 AM | #4 |
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I love the TED series of talks.
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04-25-2011, 08:42 AM | #5 |
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Well done UT.
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04-26-2011, 12:10 AM | #6 |
Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you.
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Very good video UT. I sent it to my mom. Thats exactly how my mom and dad treat me. I will not bring up politics or religion and try not to talk to them about it. One day I was refusing to discuss an issue with my dad (I don't even remember what it was) he started telling me how ignorant I was and that I must not know anything about it because I wouldn't discuss it. Made me feel awful. But discussing these things with them always turns into a fight, and I don't want that. Which that time it turned into a fight anyway.
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04-27-2011, 09:07 AM | #7 |
To shreds, you say?
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I would so bang her. I'd fuck the right right out of her. yeah.
wait, how come it doesn't say anonymous for my user name?
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04-27-2011, 09:53 AM | #8 |
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I had no idea Christopher Atkins had found a new career. Bravo!
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04-27-2011, 12:32 PM | #9 |
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I like how only half of me is right, and the other half is left. Otherwise I'd go round in circles the whole time and I'd get awfully dizzy.
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Ms Schulz larger point is that we fight admitting our wrongness because it's psychologically difficult. How many times have you heard someone say "You just can't admit you're wrong!"
This morning we see how this works. Yesterday, Obama released his "long form" birth certificate. His short form was plenty of legal proof of his place of birth. But birther conspiracy theorists continued to say that until Obama released this long form, it was major evidence they were right. Now suddenly the long form is released, devastating their position; and suddenly, the long form is not enough. Top birther Orly Taitz simply moved the goalposts. She can't admit she's wrong, even in the face of devastating evidence. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...ot_african.php Quote:
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04-28-2011, 07:41 PM | #11 |
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How human....
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04-29-2011, 02:02 PM | #12 |
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OK. I'll bite. Footfootfoot was wrong/ is wrong. He wouldn't actually bang her. Not that it was ever an option, but...
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06-02-2011, 02:38 PM | #13 | |
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The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011...e-chris-mooney
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06-02-2011, 04:09 PM | #14 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Fascinating. Thanks Classic.
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