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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My Call:  Trump Loses to Biden

DC Politics National Politics

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CN11042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      This is Election Day in the USA.  Polls are open.  I’m calling this election decisively for former Vice-President Joe Biden, making President Donald Trump the loser.  I’ve worked and worried about this election for months and years, but all the signs I see, and …

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Pre-Election Apocalypse Warnings

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CN11022020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      It isn’t news that America has been increasingly divided with the wounds pushed open wider and wider by the president.  As the hours’ count down to the election, we have to wonder if Humpty-Dumpty can be put together, and, if so, what it might …

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