Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "The Most Common Cognitive Bias" video.

@pablogarin Getting a "no" is not as valuable, which is exactly why this bias exists in the first place. Relevant real world patterns aren't super simple things that simply don't occur because of their simplicity, but complex things that first have to be found. So you'd be getting "no" answers all of the time and a "yes" answer is what you're fishing for. In the end it's not about no or yes, but about decreasing entropy and how that's best achieved depends on your assumptions, which can never be fully checked or justified.
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At this point they were surely happy that they hadn't brought a phenomenologist.
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What a bunch of absolute crap. "Western Europeans" invented negative numbers in the first place. And all of the non-integers.
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@Mcskittelybiscuts >challenge them to come and see, to ask a God they do not believe in to reveal himself You cannot speak to someone, you don't believe in. And no one, who actually exists, needs you to first believe in them, before they can reveal themselves. >Family death, suffering, loss That is a scientific matter if your god is supposed to be "good" in any sense. If I claim that the all powerful unicorn-creator exists, that's very much contradicted by the obvious lack of unicorns. >although it's a quick an easy excuse Your myths being contradicted by all of human knowledge is no "excuse", and there is no "excuse" needed to reject your vile superstitions.
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@Mcskittelybiscuts What you call "love" has absolutely nothing to do with actual love. Love is the desire to help others, it's completely incompatible with gleefully torturing others.
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Ok, but ascending order is a pretty boring pattern. How would this work out with a complex pattern? Most of the values you name would be negatives. Once you get some positives you still might not have a "theory" to be disproven. I think the specific setting distorts the importance of "yes" and "no" responses when the actual importance is reduction in entropy.
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