Talking heads that make their living off of creating drama and controversy are 
all BS.  The View, Joe, Rachael... all of them are BS.  
Newspapers less so but you gotta know the bias going in.

In Utah we used to have two really good daily papers.  The Deseret News and the 
Salt Lake Tribune.  Both date way back.  One pro LDS church and one anti LDS 
church.  The Des News does not really exist as a daily and I don’t think either 
of them print on paper.  I had to read both to get the best idea of what was 
going on with any issue.  I miss my physical papers.  They sure filled up the 
garbage can though.  

I mostly ignore national news on TV, radio and podcasts.  Used to listen to NPR 
all the time.  It used to have jazz locally for lotsa hours each day.  They 
took that off and gave us first Juan Williams, really a good interviewer, then 
Diane Rheme.  I really disliked her.

Don’t much listen to any NPR anymore.  Just WBGO listen live.  Good jazz.

From: Bill Prince 
Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 11:15 AM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Motivated Perception/Confirmation Bias Term in Tech

How do you ascertain that he was not?


bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 2/1/2022 10:13 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:

  How did you ascertain that what he was saying was BS?




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  From: "Bill Prince" mailto:[email protected]
  To: [email protected]
  Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 11:41:32 AM
  Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Motivated Perception/Confirmation Bias Term in Tech


  It's like Joe Rogan now saying that he's going to give equal time to science 
versus the BS he's spreading on his podcast. Does that make the BS any less BS?



bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 2/1/2022 8:40 AM, Dennis Burgess wrote:

    Coincidence ?  or Magical Thinking?  







    Dennis Burgess


    Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second Edition” 

    Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services 

    Office: 314-735-0270  Website: http://www.linktechs.net 

    Create Wireless Coverage’s with www.towercoverage.com 

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    From: AF mailto:[email protected] On Behalf Of Steve Jones
    Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 10:17 AM
    To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:[email protected]
    Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Motivated Perception/Confirmation Bias Term in Tech



    Thats exactly it for the issues that actually exist, thanks.



    Now i need to know what its called when the issue is imagined after an 
event.



    Similar to the game i play with my wife where i ask her if the kids feel 
warm and 99 percent of the time she "feels" a fever on their forehead



    On Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 9:39 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

      In classical Greek sophistry, the term was “Post hoc ergo propter hoc”.  
Which means “after, therefore because of”.    

      It’s one of the classic logical fallacies.





      From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Jones
      Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2022 1:10 AM
      To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
      Subject: [AFMUG] Motivated Perception/Confirmation Bias Term in Tech



      You guys are a bunch of nerds, somebody has to know the term Im looking 
for to describe this phenomena.



      When an inert even triggers customers to believe there is an issue that 
doesnt exist, or they notice an existing issue and assign it to the event.



      Some examples:



      You put up a notification that site A is undergoing maintenance, so a 
customer on Site B that is totally isolated sayas that ever since that 
maintenance, there has been a problem.



      We did a mass change of our defalt WPA keys on managed routers. Probably 
1 percent of the customers claimed that "ever since the change" there has been 
some issue. Changing they WPA key wont impact performance.



      I just completed a network wide rate plan naming convention change, every 
non custom account will have  anew name for their rate plan on their invoice. 
this had zero service impact, its just clerical, but as the bills go out, 
probably 1 percent (probably that same 1 percent) will call in with an "ever 
since the change" complaint.



      Im not looking to argue with the customer as to whether there is an issue 
or not, Im simply looking for the name of the phenomenon.



      Id like to incorporate this into tier 1 support training so that this 
doesnt continually generate nuisance escalations. Some reference material on it 
would be the bees knees. Everything has a name, like Petrichor: the way it 
smells outside after rain or Phosphenes: the lights you see when you close your 
eyes and press your hands to them.

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