04-01-2012, 12:54 PM
(05-28-2011, 05:02 AM)Meerie Wrote: If life hands you a lemon, go make lemonade.
If life hands you hops and barley, go make beer.
if you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Quote:Law of the instrument
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The concept known as the law of the instrument, Maslow's hammer, or a golden hammer is an over-reliance on a familiar tool; as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
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Quote:Confirmation bias
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Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias, myside bias or verification bias) is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. For example, in reading about gun control, people usually prefer sources that affirm their existing attitudes. They also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position.
these things I learn from wikipedia, every days