A portion of it is pure ignorance. I was quite young when I first noticed that a journalist didn’t know that doubling something was a 100% increase, not a 200% increase.
Most of it is wanting to believe something, an active confirmation bias. People conning themselves.
H.M.: Yes, there does seem to be a problem…Jeffrey Lord at The American Spectator might benefit from the Real Clear Politics article.
A portion of it is pure ignorance. I was quite young when I first noticed that a journalist didn’t know that doubling something was a 100% increase, not a 200% increase.
Most of it is wanting to believe something, an active confirmation bias. People conning themselves.
I got it, Alex! What did the new pope say to the altar boy?