RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: October 28, 2012: "...we're all at the mercy of a voluminous set of cognitive biases that distort our thinking..."

"...we're all at the mercy of a voluminous set of cognitive biases that distort our thinking: We routinely ignore evidence that contradicts our preexisting beliefs...” 

~Daniel Kahneman, American psychologist and Nobel laureate
Author: Thinking Fast and Slow

"It takes a lot more effort to draw rational conclusions from objective evidence than it does to simply accept preconceived biases that we are already comfortable with. We are all inherently lazy; more or less."

~Unknown