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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I think the point is, that's not critical thinking. That's justifying the rightness of an already-held position.
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If I have a basic view or belief that it is softly raining outside, I may be indifferent to that fact, but it is a basic belief that I hold at that particular moment. If the weather man comes on TV and says it is not raining, creating a challenge to that basic belief, I may go to the window or go outside to check, I have a rain gauge that I may check to see how much it had been raining, I might look at the cloud pattern to see if the rain is isolated, I might check some other sources I have for weather. After all of that my basic belief will be enhanced or changed.
You suggest that process is not critical thinking? I disagree.
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There's no real thinking there, that's just reaction. It's very very automatic.
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Perhaps you should speak for yourself. I know what I do, and I described it.
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The "you" in this post IS ace, but is also all of us. I think it's interesting that conservatives seem in this study to show this reaction more strongly than others--that is a surprise to me, because I've always thought of this as a fairly fundamental human being phenomenon.
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I don't disagree with the study, from my point of view it is true. I have observed the pattern described in my own thought processes. Like I said, I did not need a study for that and if asked I would have given an honest answer. I do not know if the pattern shown actually applies more to "conservatives" than "liberals", my gut based on the examples shown is that the person who did the study approached it with his own biases. Aw shucks, there I go again!
