Talk:Morton's demon

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To be fair to Morton, most people, regardless of what it is they believe in, find it VERY difficult to perceive any evidence that they might be wrong about it. --Gulik 01:33, 25 May 2007 (CDT)

Hence why a system to advance knowledge based on evidence gathered from empirically derived tests is preferred to a system that relies only on people thinking and talking to each other. 01:37, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
Is there a name for this phenomenon in general? --jtltalk 01:41, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
"Stupidity"? :) --Gulik 11:35, 13 September 2007 (MDT) (Also, Confirmation Bias, I think.)

Question[edit]

Should there be a clarification cross link to Morton's Fork? Anna Livia (talk) 19:04, 11 November 2019 (UTC)