(Had to google “backfire effect” to find out whether you had made it up on the spot.)
EDIT: Looks like I had already heard of that effect, and I even seem to recall E.T. Jaynes giving a theoretical explanation of it, but I didn’t remember whether it had a name.
Had to google “backfire effect” to find out whether you had made it up on the spot.
“Like I said, it’s a really obscure bias, you’ve probably never heard of it.”
I even seem to recall E.T. Jaynes giving a theoretical explanation of it
Really? I don’t remember ever seeing anything like that (although I haven’t read all of PT:TLoS yet). Maybe you’re conflating it with the thesis using Bayesian methods I link in http://www.gwern.net/backfire-effect ?
(Had to google “backfire effect” to find out whether you had made it up on the spot.)
EDIT: Looks like I had already heard of that effect, and I even seem to recall E.T. Jaynes giving a theoretical explanation of it, but I didn’t remember whether it had a name.
“Like I said, it’s a really obscure bias, you’ve probably never heard of it.”
Really? I don’t remember ever seeing anything like that (although I haven’t read all of PT:TLoS yet). Maybe you’re conflating it with the thesis using Bayesian methods I link in http://www.gwern.net/backfire-effect ?