Whoops! turq, thanks for THREE fascinating articles this morning. Whew, close call, good save, etc!
On Saturday, November 2, 2013 6:28 AM, Share Long <sharelon...@yahoo.com> wrote: Thanks for 2 fascinating articles, turq. I was realizing yesterday during the Clinton exchanges, that we humans like to think that we're being logical and reasonable and intelligent about our political choices. But I could feel in myself on subtler levels, that my conclusions about Hillary Clinton are not derived only from facts and observables and logic. So I agree with the author when he says at the end that education must aim at something more subtle and not so easy to measure. I'd add that often that something is also a challenge in terms of articulation. But it's great fun to keep attempting to articulate what's elusive and or complex. Yikes! I've slipped into preaching to the choir! On Saturday, November 2, 2013 4:17 AM, TurquoiseB <turquoi...@yahoo.com> wrote: One that might be of interest to those who seem compelled to "prove" how much smarter they are than others. As a quote from the article and the research it reports on says: A recent study by Yale's Dan M. Kahan and colleagues might be thought to call these truisms of democratic political culture into question. According to the finding, the better you are at reasoning numerically, the more likely you are to let your political bias skew your quantitative reasoning. Put another way, the brainier you are, the better you can twist facts to your own pre-existing convictions. And that's what you will tend to do.http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/01/242138044/the-smarter-you-are-the-stupider-you-are?ft=1&f=
