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https://archive.is/OyXXw
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edit to tone down the accusatory tone of my previous comment. In retrospect, the post was likely derailed due to a subthread discussion that appears to have been flagged.
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I’d also love to hear more about this crew I am apparently being accused of being a part of. I have been posting and commenting independently on this site for years.
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> oh you're part of that crew Care to explain what you are referring to?
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https://archive.is/4eVvF
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Update: His sentence was commuted to life. https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/alabama-gov-kay-ivey-make... …
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The framing of the whole paper makes the point implicitly. They open with Aristotle’s claim that all humans by nature desire to know, then argue the converse that choosing not to know is equally a par…
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The paper describes deliberate ignorance as a universal human tendency, not a partisan one. Reducing it to a conservative specific problem is ironically a good demonstration of the phenomenon.
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This is accurate. For a scenario with a possibility of litigation you must ultimately geocode the address with google maps API or census geocoder, point in polygon against district boundaries (geopand…
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Follow up paper that extends the concept of identity protective cognition explaining that people avoid, neglect, and distort information to protect identity based belief systems. The Good, Bad and Ugl…
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Link to paper: http://www.spp1516.de/Publikationen/pdfs/Hertwig%20&%20Engel... …
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https://archive.is/OQurU