Tag Archives: evidence

Seth’s Blog – The limits of evidence-based marketing

I know this to be true, that evi­dence doesn’t tend to change people’s opin­ion on a sub­ject, but darn it, evi­dence really should change people’s under­stand­ing of a subject.

March 6, 2011 – 11:20 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Marketing, Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Skepticblog – The Reasonableness of Weird Things

Peo­ple believe in irra­tional things because they accept the evi­dence for it, they just typ­i­cally don’t access all of the evi­dence or the evi­dence that is more accurate.

July 27, 2010 – 1:31 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

The Certified DBA – The Daily WTF

Being an expert and being right are never one and the same.

March 23, 2010 – 10:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Random, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Calling Something Factual, Doesn’t Make It Magically Factual

Specif­i­cally, this is another time in which I call out Repub­li­cans for their lack of atten­tion to basic logic and under­stand­ing of facts. I received an email tonight from the RNC regard­ing Obama, Con­gress and the orga­ni­za­tion ACORN. In this email the GOP makes the claim that “It seems the Obama Admin­is­tra­tion has plans to …

April 9, 2009 – 2:19 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)