(December 9, 2012 at 1:29 pm)Al-Fatihah Wrote: Response: I never disputed the meaning of confirmation bias. I simply stated that there is nothing wrong with being bias, as long as it does not conflict with logic.
Yet confirmation bias is a logical fallacy, so by its very definition it does conflict with logic.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
