Just a quick follow-up to my earlier post on confirmation bias and pigheadedness in democracy. NPR's Neal Conan talks with Dana Milbank and Brendan Nyhan, a Robert Wood Johnson scholar in health policy research with the University of Michigan, about this very issue.
I was going to use some quotes from this in the my post, but I started to get into coroners and predation and cowboys and severed heads and it got pretty long pretty quickly. Think of this as "recommended reading" on the subject, which really is very fascinating to me. You can also read the transcript here.
It's often the case that I collect more info than I use in my long-form posts, so I may start doing this more often.
I was going to use some quotes from this in the my post, but I started to get into coroners and predation and cowboys and severed heads and it got pretty long pretty quickly. Think of this as "recommended reading" on the subject, which really is very fascinating to me. You can also read the transcript here.
It's often the case that I collect more info than I use in my long-form posts, so I may start doing this more often.
