tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847775060570505785.post1896415480624281440..comments2024-01-09T01:47:48.175-05:00Comments on Finance Guy: Is Being an Ideologue a Contributor to Stupidity?Finance Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00610439870760091838noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847775060570505785.post-3222312772271164962012-06-11T18:52:57.577-04:002012-06-11T18:52:57.577-04:00Loved it. Perfectly simple and beautiful explanati...Loved it. Perfectly simple and beautiful explanation that Santa Claus doesn't exist.Dina Strangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09077916681030320551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847775060570505785.post-27293252109606755102012-06-11T18:50:56.988-04:002012-06-11T18:50:56.988-04:00Loved it. Perfectly simple and beautiful explanati...Loved it. Perfectly simple and beautiful explanation that Santa Claus doesn't exist.Dina Strangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09077916681030320551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847775060570505785.post-73649844501339597942012-01-24T21:46:39.422-05:002012-01-24T21:46:39.422-05:00Depends if ideologues are in political power, whic...Depends if ideologues are in political power, which seems today to be the norm. Then, they abhor cognitive dissonance which is a threat to their orthodoxy and their hegemony.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847775060570505785.post-10697921192679125022012-01-23T19:17:11.252-05:002012-01-23T19:17:11.252-05:00Maybe they were stupid first, ideologues later.Maybe they were stupid first, ideologues later.dr2chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16320828055999939449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847775060570505785.post-65340836820280780702012-01-23T17:18:37.449-05:002012-01-23T17:18:37.449-05:00But ideologues don't do nuance well. They also...<i>But ideologues don't do nuance well. They also abhor cognitive dissonance.</i><br /><br />To the contrary, they seem not so much to abhor cognitive dissonance as to indulge in it endlessly -- that's one of the problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3847775060570505785.post-37384557449495917882012-01-22T05:46:08.105-05:002012-01-22T05:46:08.105-05:00Phillip Tetlock has proven your headline statistic...Phillip Tetlock has proven your headline statistically using thousands of expert predictions over the last 25 years.<br />Tetlock presents his findings:<br />http://fora.tv/2007/01/26/Why_Foxes_Are_Better_Forecasters_Than_Hedgehogs<br />His very thorough book:<br />http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7959.htmlPeternoreply@blogger.com