12-18-2010, 09:26 PM
(12-18-2010, 08:56 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: We're a lot more open-minded here than the general population, but even we might have our biases. Biases are found everywhere: in religion/spirituality/science/politics etc. and go in either direction. But it's especially disconcerting to find strong biases among those who claim to be approaching an issue logically, rationally, and scientifically. Yet such biases in the scientific community abound.At least their publications have strict rules against injecting bias or any form of opinion. Formally, I think they are aware of the danger of bias.
I hold a view that the 3rd-density subdensities parallel that of the Spiral Dynamic (SD) valuing memes (vMemes). In SD, most scientists are still centered in the "Orange" vMeme, or just after the middle subdensity. Basically this means that their personal biases will involve satisfying the understanding necessary to "graduate" to the next higher subdensity. Certain considerations that we might attribute to "open-mindedness" are simply not available in that subdensity.