Monday, January 11, 2010

How to Imagine Your Own Biases ... The Media Need More Neurons


SEE HERE Thomas Sowell, always a clear thinker, reveals the sloppy thinking of the media elite who can't tell the difference between static and dynamic categories. All of us have been "poor" at one time or the other. I had no income before I got my first paper route, and I was definitely not at the top of the food chain when I was a newly minted young physicist working at an entry level position for the government. Sowell's point is that our media elite can't seem to read statistics for what they are, a snapshot of a dynamic reality. Instead they read into the data their own statist biases. We all are exposed to the resulting propaganda.

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