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Again, just your personal opinion.
Just what do you think your belief is? it's your personal opinion, if you stopped believing then your personal opinion would change and you would be saying the exact opposite to what you are saying now, just by changing your personal opinion.

If you think your God has power then forget it, you have much more power than your God, am I crazy? no because you can make your God disappear just by changing your mind, now that's what I call power.
 
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We all have our faith-based beliefs.
 
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I gave you the opportunity. Had you noted the numbers, postulated a hypothesis, and set about immediately to try to falsify that hypothesis, that would seem to demonstrate that you do not have confirmation bias.

Hi,

I think you are arguing from a position of authority, or any one of a number of what is called logical fallacies.

In plain language, your testing is invalid to the point of giving me fear in your actual lack of knowledge or abilities in the field of science.

Here is a list of logical fallacies:

http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1311/fallacies.htm

LOVE,
 
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I gave you the opportunity. Had you noted the numbers, postulated a hypothesis, and set about immediately to try to falsify that hypothesis, that would seem to demonstrate that you do not have confirmation bias.

Hi,

Actually I did all that. Is not informing you of that work a problem to or for you. I did not tell you of that work, but I started it and then soon realized that to actually solve that problem is a lot of work, and I needed to know how important it is or was to solve that problem.

In life, I only work on things that count, normally. I also do not work on problems other people can solve better than I can. I also do not work on problems that I cannot solve, or think I cannot solve.

On the last item of not working on problems that I cannot solve or think I cannot solve. I have been more than once assigned to work on them anyway. In all cases I did solve them. That surprised me.

What surprised me even more, is my assignors, seemed to expect me to be able to solve those problems, even when I was sure they were wrong.

Now, I did all you asked, plus suspected you were wrong and did not go further. Does that mean I have no confimation bias and I passed your test for that or not?

In the mean time, have you answered my question yet?

LOVE,
 
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Hi,

Again: http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1311/fallacies.htm

You are in there, somewhere.

LOVE,
 
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I gave you the opportunity. Had you noted the numbers, postulated a hypothesis, and set about immediately to try to falsify that hypothesis, that would seem to demonstrate that you do not have confirmation bias.

Hi,

The question you did not answer is:

How can you show that I did not have bias, nor made an error?

LOVE,
 
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How did you determine that drugs don't work?
I'm not talking about drugs. What does any of this have to do with drugs? I am not able to determine whether drugs work. Therefore, if the drug is inexpensive (such as Paracetamol), and its claimed benefits are large (such as alleviating a headache) then I take that drug because the advantages if I'm right (no headache) far outweigh the disdvantages when I'm wrong (I waste S/.0,20 and still have a headache).
 
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It's a pretty lame excuse to believe something isn't it?
What else do you believe that can not prove scientifically? there are pink winged horses?
Please demonstrate empirically that all effects have causes that precede their effects temporally.
 
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So you disagree with me. Therefore, you think that I must be using a logical fallacy but you cannot seem to determine which one it is?
 
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Actually I did all that. Is not informing you of that work a problem to or for you.
Is this a question or a statement?

I did not tell you of that work, but I started it...
it = work, I assume.

...and then soon realized that to actually solve that problem is a lot of work, and I needed to know how important it...
Does it still refer to work, or have you changed the meaning of the word "it" in the middle of the sentence?

...is or was to solve that problem.
So you want to know how important work is or was to solve a problem?!

In life, I only work on things that count, normally. I also do not work on problems other people can solve better than I can. I also do not work on problems that I cannot solve, or think I cannot solve.
I doubt the relevance of this part, but I'll go with it for the moment...

On the last item of not working on problems that I cannot solve or think I cannot solve.
Is this a complete sentence? No? I thought not.

I have been more than once assigned to work on them anyway. In all cases I did solve them. That surprised me.
Well, you think you solved them, at least. Sir Isaac Newton thought he had solved the problem of universal gravitation. Centuries after his death, we found out that his solution did not accurately predict the precession of Mercury. So even though everyone thought he was right, he wasn't.

What surprised me even more, is my assignors, seemed to expect me to be able to solve those problems, even when I was sure they were wrong.
Relevance?

Now, I did all you asked, plus suspected you were wrong and did not go further. Does that mean I have no confimation bias and I passed your test for that or not?
No, you didn't do what I asked. You refused. Therefore, I assume that you have confirmation bias.

In the mean time, have you answered my question yet?

LOVE,
I have answered all your questions, unless, of course, there was a question in that incoherent mass of a post that I didn't understand.
 
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Hi,

The question you did not answer is:



LOVE,
You claimed that you always started by trying to disprove a theory. I invited you to take a test of confirmation bias. Had you taken the test, and passed it, you would have acted in a way different from the way that the people in the video did. You would have tried to falsify your theory rather than confirm it.

You did not do so.
 
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So you have no faith in the scientific method?
None whatsoever, faith is not needed because I have evidence that it works, faith is only needed when there is no evidence,
that's why faith is reserved for religions, in fact it's the very reason all religions are called 'faiths'.
 
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If I had a glass of water that I claimed could add 30 years to your life, and it only cost $10 dollars, you would buy it?
Possibly. Would those extra 30 years be healthy years, or confined to bed suffering painfully for years?

"Decision theorists generally agree that when facing a decision under uncertainty, it is rational to choose the act with the highest expected utility. This is the principle of expected utility maximization (EUM)."

Naturally I would seek to haggle the price downward. I'll give you $5 for the water.
 
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