This one was in draft form from during our class, but it reinforces a huge lesson I wanted to convey to you guys during the class, something called “confirmation bias.”

Confirmation bias is the idea that one perceives evidence through the lense of preconceptions. This is how two honest people can view the same facts and come up with entirely different conclusions. It holds true for politics as well as for pure science. (Sorry scientists, you will always be biased by nature of your own humanity, try as you may to deceive it.)

I’m adding “confirmation bias” it to the vocab list…

Here for the post from July: —————————————————-

On July 2, the Administration announced postponement of a key portion of the Affordable Care Act, the “employer mandate” requirement that employers of 50+ employees either meet a health insurance threshold required by the law or pay a $2000 penalty per employee.

Here are two different takes on it from opposite sides of the political spectrum — both news organizations, btw, are “non-partisan”

NY Times editorial

Wall St. Journal editorial

Have fun!

– Bromley