If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::
if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake ::clap clap:: if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake ::clap clap:: look, we’ve all been fooled before when a deep-fake makes us sore but kindly doublecheck your source, it might be fake ::clap clap::
this is... genius level of public service.
i am impressed
I’m embroidering this and hanging it up
I shall always appreciate Fred Clark on Slacktivist discussing this issue; his was the first place I encountered the discussion of people wanting to believe terrible things that confirmed their biases, which hadn't quite occurred to my naive little self before that.
It's still August. This counts as a Summer Jam.
I remember the first time I truly understood that I too was subject to confirmation bias. I heard about a study that strongly fit my biases, & began talking it up. At some point I realized it was a small study done on 20 people & at BEST was a clue for further research. But I WANTED it to be right.
You're a syllable short, ma'am.
Yup. In a discord Im on when we share news that gets us all excited at least one person pops up and says "hang on lets check this". If I find myself very happy or angry I stop and wonder "who benefits from me feeling this way?"
My husband is always like "I read it on Reddit" or "I heard it on Discord" ... .......
I need this playing on a loop in the library! For patrons AND staff.
Very likely going to require that a bunch of adult community college students stand up and sing this on the first day of my science classes next week.
"But it could have been true."
IT WASN'T THOUGH.
The real trick is not wanting to believe
But until then check it twice
Oh damn that's a GOOD way to remember this!!
I need this playing on a loop through my headphones
It used to be "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see."
And even THAT doesn't hold anymore!
Uh, I'm gonna be singing this all day
One of the reasons I am such a massive skeptic about the supernatural, for the most part. I WANT IT TO BE REAL.
Well, that and there is a running joke in our family that we are a family of low-grade psychics that don't believe in psychic powers.
