Occasionally I think Ran, but then I remember Barbs, our tenured leader.
Cheers, ye olde phart...
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Occasionally I think Ran, but then I remember Barbs, our tenured leader.
Cheers, ye olde phart...
That red beard of his will forever keep us on this throne of blood. :no:
Who said the Chinese don't have a sense of humor? This is true stand-up gold, I'm telling you. :D
That act would make a killing in New York City.
On a more scientific note:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journ...671DC0C05D5AD0Quote:
Greater endorsement of CTs [Conspiracy Theories] has been observed in people who engage in less analytical and more intuitive reasoning modes (Barron et al., 2018; Georgiou, Delfabbro, & Balzan, 2019; Lantian, Bagneux, Delouvée, & Gauvrit, 2021; Swami, Voracek, Stieger, Tran, & Furnham, 2014). Reasoning biases observed in delusions, which are distinct yet related phenomena, may also be relevant (e.g. Bronstein, Everaert, Castro, Joormann, & Cannon, 2019). While delusions involve a narrower definition of counterparties and are more personally targeted, what they share with CTs is combining seemingly unrelated phenomena into meaningful patterns even if there are none.
Delusion-associated biases such as jumping-to-conclusions (JTC bias; e.g. Dudley & Over, 2003), liberal acceptance (LA bias, a lowered decision threshold; Moritz & Woodward, 2004), bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE; Woodward, Buchy, Moritz, & Liotti, 2007) and an excessive confidence in a belief with no ‘possibility of being mistaken’ (PM; Garety et al., 2005; So et al., 2012) might be also associated with the endorsement of coronavirus-related CTs.
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Our hypotheses that reasoning aberrations and paranoia are associated with coronavirus-related conspiracy beliefs were largely supported. People endorsing such beliefs tend to collect less information before making a decision (JTC bias), make judgments with low-to-moderate certainty (LA bias), and adhere more to an already held specific belief, even if this turns out to be invalid (BADE) compared to people who endorse these beliefs to a lesser degree.
^^Or to quote Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does.
Yeah, yeah, that's what an Illuminati agent from the deep state would say :rolleyes:
Adjunct thought:
Anthony Fauci = not acquainted w/Deep State.
I think he's a floater, sort of a veggie-turd, if you will...
Still twice as much as Romania though.