Confirmation Bias and Election Lessons

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CN11042020correct.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans   An economist has won the Nobel Prize in no small part for identifying the problem of “confirmation bias.”  Simply put, we tend to find evidence that confirms our bias, and are often unable to sort out the facts from our predilections.  We all do it, …

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The Trumps Go Viral

DC Politics National Politics

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CORR5296.The%20Trumps%20Go%20Viral.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Atlanta     You can’t make this stuff up!  What an unbelievable year and election season hammered by both the economic depression and the pandemic.   And, now, darned if the White House isn’t a coronavirus hotspot!  Both Donald and Melania Trump have now tested positive, as has former …

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Trump Life:  Death, Yes, Taxes, No!

National Politics

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09282020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     I had an elementary school teacher whose constant rejoinder was that “the only thing certain in life was death and taxes.”  At a tender age, neither absolute means much.  What are taxes?  When is death?  As we age, we find out way too much …

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