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To: Katelew who wrote (112039)	5/27/2009 1:28:29 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541634

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?

To: Katelew who wrote (112039)	5/27/2009 2:55:34 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541634

.the human mind being such that it gravitates toward resolution, not uncertainty One of the four elements of the Myers-Briggs temperament assessment is based on just that dichotomy. One type favors resolution, the other keeping things open. Which suggests that it's not the human mind that gravitates toward resolution but not all human minds. Otherwise they wouldn't make that one of four key elements of temperament typing. Perhaps you and your child are two examples of one side of it, making it seem like it's universal.