{"id":7252,"date":"2017-12-25T19:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T19:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7252"},"modified":"2017-12-25T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T19:43:41","slug":"repostwhy-facts-dont-change-our-minds-the-new-yorker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/25\/repostwhy-facts-dont-change-our-minds-the-new-yorker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Why Facts Don\u2019t Change Our Minds &#124; The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mercier and Sperber prefer the term \u201cmyside bias.\u201d Humans, they point out, aren\u2019t randomly credulous. Presented with someone else\u2019s argument, we\u2019re quite adept at spotting the weaknesses. Almost invariably, the positions we\u2019re blind about are our own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/02\/27\/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds\">Why Facts Don\u2019t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercier and Sperber prefer the term \u201cmyside bias.\u201d Humans, they point out, aren\u2019t randomly credulous. Presented with someone else\u2019s argument, we\u2019re quite adept at spotting the weaknesses. Almost invariably, the positions we\u2019re blind about are our own. Source: Why Facts Don\u2019t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}