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... otherwise known in contemporary psychology as "confirmation bias".

Sir Francis Bacon has to be one of the most under-quoted of the intellectuals.

Just like Skinner found in his pigeon experiments.

It makes sense, Kay. What you're doing is something all of us do to one extent or another and which it is human nature to do -- and more than merely human nature. As Brendan points out, B.F. Skinner found a very similar behavior in pigeons!

I believe that by becoming alert to our tendency towards confirmation biases we can hope to correct them.

In this theory of superstition, there's a hint that the buddhists are right to eschew attachment. For what is superstition, then, other than a mistaken attachment to a cue that has no causal connection to the desired event?

Then again, the pigeons were getting fed, weren't they?

I rub blogspots for good luck. Wait that sounds wrong.