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I think the purposes of the interested parties that govern certain Wikipedia pages is clear. Yet, we fool ourselves to think that we ourselves would never have been skeptical like the pharisees, or, had we been there ourselves, that we'd be entirely free of doubt. Most doubtful. | I think the purposes of the interested parties that govern certain Wikipedia pages is clear. Yet, we fool ourselves to think that we ourselves would never have been skeptical like the pharisees, or, had we been there ourselves, that we'd be entirely free of doubt. Most doubtful. | ||
You may have seen the "dancing bear" or "invisible gorilla" videos, short films of groups of people running in circles passing around a basketball.<ref>Here for the bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfA3ivLK_tE ; and here for the gorilla: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo</ref> When told to count how many times the ball has been passed around, viewers fail to see | You may have seen the "dancing bear" or "invisible gorilla" videos, short films of groups of people running in circles passing around a basketball.<ref>Here for the bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfA3ivLK_tE ; and here for the gorilla: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo</ref> When told to count how many times the ball has been passed around, viewers fail to see amidst the shuffle either a moon-walking bear or a gorilla going right through the group. Called "selective attention," it's really a form of ''confirmation bias'', whereby we see what we expect to see, we believe only what we already believe. | ||
Confirmation bias is not always harmful, In fact, it can lead to great insight, such as that of Columbus who saw only an earth that was 8,000 miles around, despite plentiful contrary evidence available to him. Had he opened his mind to, say, Eratosthenes, who in 240 BC measured the earth's circumference to near perfect accuracy,<ref>Earth's circumference - Wikipedia "an error on the real value between −2.4% and +0.8%"</ref> he never would have sailed west from Spain.<ref>At the time, the "Atlantic" and "Pacific" oceans were thought of as a single "Ocean." </ref> Great insight not infrequently follows a biased vision. | Confirmation bias is not always harmful, In fact, it can lead to great insight, such as that of Columbus who saw only an earth that was 8,000 miles around, despite plentiful contrary evidence available to him. Had he opened his mind to, say, Eratosthenes, who in 240 BC measured the earth's circumference to near perfect accuracy,<ref>Earth's circumference - Wikipedia "an error on the real value between −2.4% and +0.8%"</ref> he never would have sailed west from Spain.<ref>At the time, the "Atlantic" and "Pacific" oceans were thought of as a single "Ocean." </ref> Great insight not infrequently follows a biased vision. | ||