A book written especially for lustyLaffer and bambutt

https://www.thedailybeast.com/forget...rly-everything

People are often incredibly wrong about key social and political realities in their countries, as I explore in my book, Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything, which draws on over 100,000 interviews across up to 40 nations, including the U.S..
For example, people in the U.S. think that 24 percent of teenage girls give birth each year—when it’s only 2 percent. Americans think that 33 percent of their population are immigrants, when the reality is around 14 percent—and that 17 percent of the population are Muslim, when it’s around 1 percent.



Across 30 countries, only 15 percent of people think their national murder rate is down since 2000, when it is actually down by 29 percent.
Surveys of the general public in the U.S. show Americans are generally a pretty happy bunch, with 9 in 10 saying they’re very or rather happy. But that’s not our impression of our fellow citizens: We think only half of other Americans would say they’re happy.
All the best evidence, including a review of over 1 million children, suggests there is no link between vaccines and autism in healthy children. But 4 in 10 Americans think there is, or they are not sure.
The temptation is to cry “post-truth’” and entirely blame our increasingly sensationalist media, social media, and tribal politicians for misleading and bringing us down. But this is not a new phenomenon. Similar misperceptions have been measured all the way back to ’40s America: Our delusions apply across time periods, countries, and issues.
The stability of our misperceptions points to a key conclusion. There is no single cause. Instead it is a “system of delusion,” based on two groups of effects that interact: “how we think,” our many biases and faulty mental shortcuts; and “what we’re told” by the media, social media, and politicians.

Things are really not as we see them - Life is actually terrible in America - says the LSM and Fascist DPST's
Recession is here, Trump is a racist, and the cause of all ills down to and including hemorrhoids and hangnails.



So vote Bernie - and watch the Fascist DPST's transform America into a socialist heaven for all- just like Maduro/Venezuela, Kim/N Korea, Castro/Cuba , Stalin/Russia. mao and Xi/China.

You will love it - because we 9Fascist DPST's) won't give you any other choice.

First, one of our most important biases is our natural focus on negative information. There is an evolutionary element to this. Negative information tends to be more urgent, even life-threatening: We needed to take note when we were warned by our fellow cavepeople about a lurking saber-toothed tiger—and those who didn’t were edited out of the gene pool.
Our brains therefore handle negative information differently and store it more accessibly, as shown in a number of neuroscience experiments that track electrical activity in subjects’ brains. We react more strongly to negative images, like mutilated faces or dead cats, and process them with different intensity in different parts of the brain. We are therefore very attuned to bad news and a sense of threat in news stories and speeches by politicians, for example, on crime or terrorist attacks. We focus more on this negative information, and this exaggerates the scale of the risk or issue in our thinking.


Example:

The Mexicans and Muslims are coming! The Mexicans are rapists and the Muslims terrorists! Build a wall! Jesus can't compete...

WTF

WTF Originally Posted by Hotrod511

Originally Posted by WTF

and their grammar sucks too

and their grammar sucks too
Originally Posted by Hotrod511

You ought not speak ill of Jesus...

Second, we also have a faulty view of change: In particular, we’re susceptible to a false sense that everything is going downhill. We naturally suffer from what social psychologists call “rosy retrospection”: We literally edit out bad things from our past, on everything from our poor exam results to our less-than-perfect holidays.
Again, this is not a dumb fault in our brains, it’s good for our mental health not to dwell on past failings or challenges. But it has the unfortunate side-effect of making us think the present and future are worse than our memories of the past: We don’t only exaggerate the scale of crime, for example, we also tend to think it’s getting worse even when it’s not.

You ought not speak ill of Jesus...


Originally Posted by WTF

that must be your butt buddy (Assup)

ftw is desperately trying to "rationalize Bernie".
Doesn't work well - At All!!!
However, until the Fascist DPST's take control and impose one party Rule - it is still a country where Republicans must respect the Right to Freedom of One's Own opinion by the Fascist DPST's.

The reverse - impossible for the Marxists to comprehend.

The media back by our friend soros " media matters " for socialism

Third, we suffer from what social psychologists call “emotional innumeracy” when estimating realities: This means we are sending a message about what’s worrying us as much as trying to get the right answers when answering questions about realities, whether we’re consciously aware of that or not. Cause and effect run in both directions, with our concern leading to our misperceptions as much as our misperceptions creating our concern.
This has the critical implication that simplistic myth-busting, correcting misperceptions solely with facts, will always have limited impact—because it misdiagnoses part of the reason for our error. Our perceptions of reality are partially driven by our emotional reactions, not cold-eyed arithmetic.

ftw- are you planning on quoting the scripture for "God says defeat Trump in 2020"??????
A Benedictine monastery might be a good refuge for Fascist DPST's!!

this guys book might have a few points to consider but just from wtf's postings the writer seems to suffer from the same malady he finds in others, with a tad more pride

as shakespeare wrote

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

anyone remember charo?

no not the elvis movie, charro, or the rex allen song

the cuchee cuchee girl, born maria rosario pilar martinez molina baeza, but for short - charo

the once young bride of xavier cugat

anyway, speaking of shakespeare, charo was on the tonight show with johnny carson

she asked carson, "if shakespeare was alive today, what would he be most famous for?"

carson shrugged in mystified wonder

charo- "his old age!"

rimshot please