Motivated reasoning

@mchill said
With this in mind, my presence in these forums will be far less from now on and will leave folks like you float along in the 1000 rating range year after year.

The planchette on my Ouija board just moved to Good-Bye all on its own.

Spooky!

@FMF

I think that is possible, almost subconscious reasoning to match a bias. I think that has been true of me, but I bumped into a really interesting person, not all of their views I agree with, but it’s taught me to keep an open mind.

Two of the things that I did to try and embrace this was take both Raj and Sonship off line and over a few games try to understand both them and their perspectives better. I’m still in therapy 🙈

No to be honest both are richer than their debating personas would have you believe.

It would be good if you could Kev providing your not just pulling everone's leg; is it to do with a shared consciousness?

@fmf said
Gosh. I've stumbled across a topic, yet again, that mchill doesn't want to discuss.

@fmf said
"Motivated reasoning is the phenomenon in cognitive science and social psychology in which emotional biases lead to justifications or decisions based on their desirability rather than an accurate reflection of the evidence." wiki

@medullah said
It would be good if you could Kev providing your not just pulling everone's leg; is it to do with a shared consciousness?

@kilroy70 said
Smells like confirmation bias.

@fmf said
Yes. I think motivated reasoning and confirmation bias are closely related.

@kevin-eleven said
Which underlying elements of your incarnation would you say might be involved in that?