The past year has been a difficult one, where our beliefs have been tested.
The confirmation bias, in which we give much greater credence to evidence and data that bolster our beliefs.
Throughout the list, a host of commanding Middle-Eastern women challenge our beliefs about gender and equality in the region.
While not chained by others, we chain ourselves by comfortably surrounding ourselves with likeminded people who reinforce our beliefs.
And we can all reject attempts to discredit evidence that challenges our beliefs.
How many are willing to stand up for our beliefs in a room filled with people who believe the opposite?
We are the pamphleteers of the digital age when we post raucous rants and deliberate screeds that espouse our beliefs and values.
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We became a great nation also because every time our beliefs and ideals have been threatened, Americans have stepped forward to defend them.
Sure does to me and I love these words because they challenge our thinking, our beliefs, our feelings and the status quo.
What matters is that backbench MPs of all parties should be free to vote in accordance with our beliefs and in the interests of our constituents.
So far, these efforts have perpetuated or even exacerbated the problem, because almost all of them simply reinforce our beliefs about the magical disinhibiting powers of alcohol.
Of course, we change tactics when need to, but we never change our beliefs, the strategic beliefs that are necessary to protect this country in the world.
"What matters is that backbench MPs of all parties should be free to vote in accordance with our beliefs and in the interests of our constituents, " he added.
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But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and our beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.
Because there is no other nation on earth with the capacity that we have by virtue of our principles, our history, our beliefs, our values, our resources, and our freedom, that can lead.
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It might seem strange that a furniture manufacturer was an integral part of forming the body that developed the ubiquitous LEED rating system, but to us, it was a logical extension of our beliefs.
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Confirmation bias is a type of selective thinking in which we tend to notice and look for that which confirms our beliefs and positions, and to ignore or undervalue the relevance of anything that is contradictory.
As we observe Religious Freedom Day, let us remember the legacy of faith and independence we have inherited, and let us honor it by forever upholding our right to exercise our beliefs free from prejudice or persecution.
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However, if we really want to challenge ourselves to be both more confident in our beliefs and more effective in our interactions with others, we should choose to watch news shows that disagree with our point of view.
We cannot uphold the rule of law only when it is consistent with our beliefs, we must uphold it even when it protects behavior that we don't like or is unattractive or is not admirable or that might even be hurtful.
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We will explore the accuracy (or lack thereof) of our beliefs about our abilities and competence (chapter 1), the effects of our emotions on unrelated decisions (chapter 2), and the consequences of having an (overly) narrow focus when evaluating information and making decisions (chapter 3).
We ought to be able to, in a country as proud and as rich in tradition as the United States of America, to have a debate in a way that is civil and in a way that demonstrates both the passion of our beliefs, but in the values that we hold dearly as a country.
We eagerly romp with him through the follies of confirmation bias (our tendency to reaffirm our beliefs rather than contradict them), narrative fallacy (our weakness for compelling stories), silent evidence (our failure to account for what we don't see), ludic fallacy (our willingness to oversimplify and take games or models too seriously), and epistemic arrogance (our habit of overestimating our knowledge and underestimating our ignorance).
"For the past two centuries, we have forged a nation by emphasizing our common beliefs, our common ideals and, perhaps most important ... our common language, " Solomon said on the House floor.
In fact, our preexisting beliefs often have far more influence over our logical conclusions than facts or hard data.
Somehow, when so many of our other beliefs about the roles of men and women have been revolutionized, our view of the mother-son relationship has remained frozen in time.
Underlying many of our mistaken beliefs about animal intelligence is the problem of negative evidence.
The real problem is that our cultural beliefs about workplace practices lag behind technological and other changes in the workplace.
We all know they exist and yet we fuel our own beliefs by watching and listening to sources that reinforce them.
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