Episode 262 (Transcript): Big Ideas | Confirmation Bias
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CW: Anything that doesn’t validate our existing beliefs, anything that doesn’t support our doctrine, anything that gives like a different slant to a story.
SH: Yeah.
CW: Is what I think we called Anti.
SH: Yes. Yes.
CW: I mean, we were specifically taught to only read and watch and listen to materials that support church teachings. I think that was explicit.
SH: Hello, I’m Susan Hinkley.
CW: I’m Cynthia Winward,
SH: And this is At Last She Said It. We are Women of Faith discussing complicated things. And the title of today’s episode is Big Ideas: Confirmation Bias.
Okay. But before we start, Cynthia, I’m going to… just... I’m just gonna do it. I’m gonna make a plea for donations right at the beginning of the show.
Okay. I mean, we appreciate everyone who supports At Last She Said It, whether that be through subscribing to our substack with a paid subscription, or whether that be just hitting the donate button, right, and making a donation. Or we have people who send us checks or Venmo, but we very often tout the benefits of being a paid substack subscriber. But today I’m just gonna ask for straight up donations.
So, great either way that you wanna support us, but
CW: Great either way.
SH: Yeah, we do have expenses. They continue six years in. I know that you know, we were novel a while ago and we’re not now. But our expenses remain the same, and so we could use some help.
CW: Our expenses have actually gone up because we’re tired and so we have brought on a few more people to help us.
SH: Right.
CW: And we have so many good people that say to us all the time, please don’t ever stop doing this. And it’s like, well, it’s also really hard to do a job for practically free, even if it is a labor of love.
SH: Correct.
CW: But you and I were recently looking into maybe commercials to kind of solve this problem.
SH: Right.
