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To: Katelew who wrote (112039)	5/27/2009 1:28:29 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 541658

and somewhat innocently overlook evidence to the contrary. I agree that people reinforce the emotional comfort level with feeding their biases. But it's much more serious than just overlooking this or that; many people totally suspend systemic analysis on the issue at hand to feed their preconceptions. It's like suspending the scientific method because you really want to believe that the moon is made out of blue cheese. Much like the welfare queen myth displaces the actual facts about welfare recipients for those whose sole aim is to paint the government and welfare recipients in as bad a light as possible. The problem is, most people don't get any rigorous training in social science analysis so they don't really know or care that leaping to unsustainable emotional conclusions is wrong. And they enjoy it, so why not?

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