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There are a lot of interesting subjects this article covers. One that stood out to me was how new evidence seeming in favor of something can be turned against
by te_platt 12y ago
There are a lot of interesting subjects this article covers. One that stood out to me was how new evidence seeming in favor of something can be turned against it. E.T. Jaynes describes it with what he calls the "deception hypothesis". A nice article touching on that can be found here:
http://blog.chron.com/climateabyss/2011/12/e-t-jaynes-explains-why-people-aren%E2%80%99t-convinced-by-climate-change-evidence/ http://blog.chron.com/climateabyss/2011/12/e-t-jaynes-explai...
- ggchappell 12y agoInteresting article. If I might "think out loud", and summarize: Suppose I have decided that claim X is false. Now someone says, "Here is evidence for X." Then I am likely to think that there is deception involved: someone made something up, or misinterpreted something. Now suppose someone comes up with very strong evidence for X. I think: of course there is deception involved. Thus, what is presumably strong evidence for X becomes, in my hands, strong evidence that either flawed reasoning or fraud is happening.