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The Abel who was likable and charming never went away. He had a drinking problem, but he was a nice guy. We had a family. Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you
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“whereas confirmation bias is an automatic tendency to notice data that fit with our beliefs, motivated reasoning is the complementary tendency to scrutinize ideas more carefully if we don’t like them than if we do.”10”
― How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
― How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
“groups already hold them, or because we feel emotionally good about them—and then we use our thinking skills to justify those beliefs, persuade others of their merits, and defend ourselves against other people’s contradicting beliefs.”
― How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
― How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
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