From: NPR
Is The Mind’s Approach More Like A Scientist Or A Trial Lawyer?
April 13, 2016
NPR:
Consider two very different views about the human mind.
In the first view, people are like scientists. They go about the world gathering data, constructing theories and using those theories to guide their interactions with the world. As new evidence comes in, they revise their beliefs accordingly.
In the second view, people are more like trial lawyers. They already know what they want to conclude (innocent or guilty, pro or con), and they go about seeking and construing evidence to favor that conclusion. Rather than matching their beliefs to the evidence, they match the evidence to their beliefs.
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