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To: Lane3 who wrote (28283)	9/8/2006 8:18:27 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541299

Myth? You're kidding, right. Bias carries a total disregard for critical thinking as a defining element. Sometimes I wonder. Oh, well, the point about bias was not about its effects. There is a long conversation about whether bias is an inevitable part of the human condition. You would disagree; I think there is an interesting argument that it is. The conversation Tim and I were involved in was whether ideological conviction about the content of teaching was so widespread in higher education that it constituted a "strong bias" against the goal of critical thinking. And thus might even be considered a systemic problem. I don't see that. Or anything even close to it. Only anecdotal evidence of someone here and someone there. So I called it a myth until I hear more convincing arguments. That's all.