“Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron filings.” — William Macneile Dixon, The Human Situation
#QOTD #WilliamMacneileDixon #Quote #Desires #Quotation #MotivatedReasoning

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/quote-of-the-day-5368/

Prompting an #AI model to take on a persona can impact the quality of its reasoning.

Example: political personas reasoned better when evidence aligned with their politics — a la #motivatedReasoning.

Neither chain-of-thought nor accuracy prompts helped.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.20020

In my observation, #SunkCost, #ego, and #MotivatedReasoning are the reasons why people, groups, and communities fall into patterns, and why breaking these patterns can be challenging.

Excess time, energy, and money have been expended and value must be returned to justify the expenditure.

The time, energy, and money benefits someone or some team’s self-image and status.

The justification and optics are wound up in a rationale.

My $0.02.

I don’t make the rules.

Hilda Bastian muistuttaa kahdesta tavallisesta ajatteluvinoumasta todellisuuden tuntemisen esteinä, https://statistically-funny.blogspot.com/2025/06/motivated-reasoning-alert-you-are-at.html

Lisää vineitä täältä: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

#tieto #knowledge #todellisuus #reality #reasoning #motivatedReasoning #paattely #ajattelu #some #psychology #bias

Teilt/boostet lieber weniger, bevor ihr Falschinformationen verbreitet. Seid kritischer.

Grummel.

Dazu kommt übrigens noch, dass die ganze Geschichte deutlich sexistisch ist.

#Falschinformationen
#MotivatedReasoning
#ConfirmationBias

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/nov/08/threads-posts/dont-fall-for-it-claim-that-stephen-king-was-banne/

#StevenKing #Musk #FirstLady #Sexismus

SERRCistä osui silmiin Neil Levyn terävä analyysi Blake Roeberin 2024 kirjasta Political Humility, joka koskee poliittisen tiedon mahdollisuutta, https://social-epistemology.com/2024/10/15/enjoying-humble-pie-reflections-on-roebers-political-humility-neil-levy/

Torppaako IDC - identity-protective cognition - tosiaankin sellaisen "in our hyperpartisan world", niin että jää vain vaihtelevan sivistyneitä arvauksia jos niitäkään, vai missä Roeber erehtyy?

#serrc #politicalKnowledge #knowledge #reasoning #motivatedReasoning #bias #socialEpistemology #partisanship #mysideBias #puolueellisuus #partiality #expertKnowledge #tieto