(July 10, 2015 at 2:14 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(July 10, 2015 at 1:52 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Hence the inclusion of the paragraph about Mormons putting on a face for non-Mormons. They are encouraged to make it look like they're all happy and sunny and without a care in the world because they represent their religion and their religion is perfect and wonderful and loving and happy and "the right one, didn't you know?"
Thanks for the insight.
Confirmation bias also isn't just about being biased toward one particular group or other, either. It may be the case that you have met some very attractive people and only happen to remember that they're Mormon because you somehow or other found out they were Mormon when the case may be, in fact, that of the non-Mormon people you find equally as attractive you just never found out their religious group. It may be that you know more very attractive Lutherans than very attractive Mormons, they just never told you they were Lutheran so you couldn't categorize them they way you have done with the attractive Mormons you have met.
Or of the very attractive people you see every day that you have no interaction with other than seeing them across the apple bin at the grocery store, they, on the whole, tend to be non-denominational Christians and you never have a chance to find that out.
Or it may be that you just happen to have met Mormons who happen to fit into your personal idea of what "very attractive" means and that you just haven't met enough Mormons to realize they're as average looking as any other denomination. (not putting down average looking people, there is very good reason to think that average looks are the most attractive to the majority of people and the further a persons appearance deviates from the average the fewer people would find them attractive.)
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.