As part of the group
As part of the group
Posted Jul 30, 2009 5:25 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (guest, #755)In reply to: As part of the group by graydon
Parent article: OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd
Hypothesis 3: yet more confirmation bias.
You will always find what you're looking for. I've made my points farily clearly, and avoided purposeful fallacy, and the accidental ones I could spot.
This accusation returns us to ad hominem, pretty much in a textbook fashion.
The site Graydon refers to is this:
http://www.derailingfordummies.com/
I suggest to the people who created it, and to you Graydon, that the humorous approach taken there is dog-whistle sociology, and just as with fundamentalist Republican politics, it endears them to their base, but doesn't win them any arguments.
Libertarian, here, registered, 9 years. No particular pro-Democrat bias inspiring this observation.