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  1. L Lawliet
    Welcome back to confirmation biases. Last time, I explained that to avoid confirmation bias, you'd have to view a perspective on both sides. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest you do.
    So, what did I mean by viewing a perspective on both sides?
    Well, simply put, I meant what I said. You find both proving and disproving evidence of a topic. Well, how do you do this?
    Think of it this way - "Does this evidence give clear evidence that this might be right? If not, is there any counter evidence?"
    If the answer to this is yes, congratulations - You've found sound evidence that does not confirm that your belief is 100% right. At the most, you've most likely only confirmed a very small portion of your claim.
    If the answer to this is no, however, you then look for counter evidence. Counter evidence to see if your not-clear evidence is incorrect.
    Let's use an example, again.
    You're investigating a murder. You have solid evidence that the murderer is a 15-year old child from... I don't know, Kentucky. However, you know that this one piece of evidence doesn't confirm it, and therefore, look for counter-evidence.
    Then, you do find counter-evidence. You find counter-evidence that they're not from Kentucky, and that they're actually from New Jersey. So, you put both of these aside and begin battling out which seems more likely.
    If, however, you can't find a conclusion, then set them aside for later until you find more evidence/counter-evidence. Once you have enough, argue with yourself, then make your case.
    This has been Week One of Logic Lessons with L, stay tuned for Week Two, which we'll be discussing about planning and unplanned executions of... anything.
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    Logic Lessons with L - Week 1 (1/2)

    By L Lawliet,


    Logic Lessons with L
    Inspired by the video series of the same name. I will be going over topics that the channel used to go over, and continue the series myself.
    Week One - Confirmation Bias.
    Description: The tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.
    So, what does this mean? Well, I'll simplify it for you. Let's use an example. You believe that someone stole something from a store. You have evidence that somebody did, so therefore, from that one piece of evidence, you confirm that someone stole something from the store. You don't care for any other evidence, you simply assume that because you have that one piece of evidence, you're correct. Why is this? Because it supports your opinion.
    Let's think about it in another way. Same example, you believe that someone stole something from a store. However, the evidence given to you now contradicts your belief. The evidence doesn't matter, since this is an example, but it contradicts your belief. Do you accept this outcome?
    The answer, in short, is almost definitely a resounding no. Let me explain why.
    Humans, by nature (no offense to any of you all) tend to believe that their opinion is correct, no matter what happens. Unless something shows a person first-hand that their opinion is wrong, they'll tend to believe that their opinion is 100% correct. Cough sounds familiar nowadays cough cough.
    So, you may be asking yourself - How can I get past this confirmation bias?
    It's surprisingly quite simple - View the perspective on both sides.
    Continuing tomorrow.
  3. L Lawliet
    Greetings! This is the first monthly newsletter, written on 1/20/2020 (Written with the DD/MM/YYYY format).
    Currently, the weather where I'm located is 34 degrees Fahrenheit, with 62% humidity and 5 mph winds with no precipitation.
    For the club news, there really isn't any.
    Thanks for reading...
  4. L Lawliet
    Go to school (virtually), eat lunch, play some Terraria or something, then fall asleep.
    Pretty boring, huh?
     
     
    I'm obviously kidding. This isn't my entire life. I do more than just do that over and over again... Here's what I do.
    My alarm is set for 6:05. I wake up after about... 3 minutes, so that's at 6:08. Then I quite literally faint back onto my bed and fall back asleep until 8:00. I don't know what it is, but I always feel... extraordinarily tired. Exhausted. I don't know if I have [bad virus name here] or if it's my anemia. Either way, that's not what y'all are here for. Y'all want to hear my life story. Anyways... After I wake up, I have to restart my computer once or twice because the internet doesn't like me very much. After I do that, I go onto Google Meet, go to my class website, and enter the class.
    Now, my first class is either ELA or Science. I absolutely love ELA. There, we get to... type a lot. Write a lot of things. You know, things people like doing... kind of. Partially. So, I do my ELA stuff, then we go to our next class - Theatre or Gym. Now, let me tell you about theatre.
    Theatre is the best class. Nobody can convince me otherwise. Improv, uh... talking... working in groups... We're, uh, doing Jack and the Beanstalk... yeah... that's fun... I can do good voice acting, I mean. If sounding like L sounds counts as voice acting. Anyways...
     
    I'll probably continue this... later...
     

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