Ronald, your humble servant here just finished reading the latest book, The Bed of Procrustes (2010, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of the famed bestseller [i]The Black Swan.[/i]
In it he argues forcefully, again, that humans are prone to try to fit facts into preconceived ideas of how things work, ought to be.
Often they mutilate, twist, ignore the facts to achieve this.
Over the weekend, your humble servant here attended a local political event (he lives in an exurb of Madison, Wisconsin, our state capitol) here, and again he was amazed at how people select facts, data to confirm what they want to believe.
It is scary, sad.
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