{"id":61513,"date":"2016-12-28T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61513"},"modified":"2016-12-25T21:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T03:27:59","slug":"confirmation-bias-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61513","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

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It might be funny to write a letter to the editor.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019ll claim to be a left-handed Black Transgender Lesbian.\u00a0 The story will be about my struggle, how I was oppressed by Conservative teachers in college, passed over in employment so they could hire Whites, afraid to speak my mind at work because everyone there was a Republican and they\u2019re notorious for being petty and vindictive, how traumatized I felt when Trump won and I realized my life was in danger.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I bet I could get it published to rave reviews.\u00a0 \u201cSo Brave.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Then I\u2019ll use the \u201cfind and replace\u201d function to change \u201cBlack\u201d to \u201cWhite\u201d and \u201cRepublican\u201d to \u201cDemocrat,\u201d change the whole thing mirror image, send it to the people who raved about the first column to see what they think. \u00a0My guess is they\u2019ll hate it.\u00a0 \u201cRacist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Can one person be both brave and racist? \u00a0Apparently so, if the analyst relies on the most superficial sorting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I could be a success like this guy. <\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To paraphrase PT Barnum, nobody every got their Letter to the Editor scuppered for not playing to the media’s prejudices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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