Comments on: Availabilitybiasworld http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/09/03/availabilitybiasworld/ A newswire of human stupidity Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:16:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ryan Sager - Neuroworld – Rape-Rape - True/Slant http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/09/03/availabilitybiasworld/comment-page-1/#comment-1192 Ryan Sager - Neuroworld – Rape-Rape - True/Slant Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:05:28 +0000 http://trueslant.com/ryansager/?p=4503#comment-1192 [...] harp on a Neuroworld favorite, what we’re talking about here is the availability bias. For every Hofstra case, cops as a little more suspicious, juries are a little more dubious, and [...] [...] harp on a Neuroworld favorite, what we’re talking about here is the availability bias. For every Hofstra case, cops as a little more suspicious, juries are a little more dubious, and [...]

]]> By: adam http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/09/03/availabilitybiasworld/comment-page-1/#comment-962 adam Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:35:20 +0000 http://trueslant.com/ryansager/?p=4503#comment-962 Er...I'm not disputing that availability bias exists, but the example you've provided here is a bad one and hardly supports your contention. Where in Glenn Greenwald's post did he claim that nepotism is *relatively worse* than it used to be? All his post is saying is that there currently exists some nepotism, and what nepotism there is is bad - and often hypocritical to boot given that many of those who benefit from nepotism also champion pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps. Just because the United States' Gini coefficient decreased from .70 to .30 over 200 years doesn't necessarily negate the claim "inequality in the US in 2009 is currently harmful." You've got a valid point, but you demolished a strawman in order to make it. Er…I’m not disputing that availability bias exists, but the example you’ve provided here is a bad one and hardly supports your contention. Where in Glenn Greenwald’s post did he claim that nepotism is *relatively worse* than it used to be? All his post is saying is that there currently exists some nepotism, and what nepotism there is is bad – and often hypocritical to boot given that many of those who benefit from nepotism also champion pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps.

Just because the United States’ Gini coefficient decreased from .70 to .30 over 200 years doesn’t necessarily negate the claim “inequality in the US in 2009 is currently harmful.” You’ve got a valid point, but you demolished a strawman in order to make it.

]]> By: andygeiger http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/09/03/availabilitybiasworld/comment-page-1/#comment-955 andygeiger Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:08:27 +0000 http://trueslant.com/ryansager/?p=4503#comment-955 You make a great point. The only thing i really think that is worse than ever is Humanity itself. And my brain does have data to form this opinion. There has never, according to conventional science, been such a rapid decline in Earth's biodiversity (save for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_level_event" rel="nofollow">ELE</a> asteroids and volcanic activity, but if you follow that link you will see that Humanity itself is being recognized as the next ELE) There has never been a garbage flotilla in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Trash_Vortex" rel="nofollow">Pacific Ocean</a> some 1,000,000 km^2 There have never been as many humans on this planet, in it's history, than there are <i>right now</i> I'm gonna stop now i'm getting depressed... OK let's all hold hands and sing Kum Bah Yah ;-) You make a great point. The only thing i really think that is worse than ever is Humanity itself. And my brain does have data to form this opinion.

There has never, according to conventional science, been such a rapid decline in Earth’s biodiversity (save for ELE asteroids and volcanic activity, but if you follow that link you will see that Humanity itself is being recognized as the next ELE)

There has never been a garbage flotilla in the Pacific Ocean some 1,000,000 km^2

There have never been as many humans on this planet, in it’s history, than there are right now

I’m gonna stop now i’m getting depressed…

OK let’s all hold hands and sing Kum Bah Yah ;-)

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