But what comes next is an even more subtle -- and thus an even more spectacular! -- illustration of what it looks like when one's reason is deformed by tribalism:
Yes, liberals are sometimes subject to bouts of wishful thinking. But can anyone point to a liberal equivalent of conservative denial of climate change, or the “unskewing” mania late in the 2012 campaign, or the frantic efforts to deny that Obamacare is in fact covering a lot of previously uninsured Americans?
Uh, no, PK. I mean seriously, no.
The test for motivated cognition is not whether someone gets the "right" answer but how someone assesses evidence.
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Your source is agreeing that liberals aren't as whacko as your conservatives, but only that we are not necessarily smarter in our reasoning, but just being with the smarter team.
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But what comes next is an even more subtle -- and thus an even more spectacular! -- illustration of what it looks like when one's reason is deformed by tribalism:
Yes, liberals are sometimes subject to bouts of wishful thinking. But can anyone point to a liberal equivalent of conservative denial of climate change, or the “unskewing” mania late in the 2012 campaign, or the frantic efforts to deny that Obamacare is in fact covering a lot of previously uninsured Americans?
Uh, no, PK. I mean seriously, no.
The test for motivated cognition is not whether someone gets the "right" answer but how someone assesses evidence.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Your source is agreeing that liberals aren't as whacko as your conservatives, but only that we are not necessarily smarter in our reasoning, but just being with the smarter team.