Sentences with phrase «fit preconceptions»

Not all of these outcomes are likely to be true, and none is definitive, but people tend to latch onto those that fit their preconceptions.

Larger variability and cooling does not fit preconceptions.

And Sagan's group kept changing the scenario they were using until they found one that fit their preconceptions about Nuclear Winter.

The objects may not fit our preconceptions of beauty because they are «distressed,» but they can have their own integrity and beauty.Bettencourt and Hogan endeavor to translate the life experiences of people and objects intopieces of art.

Synopsis: Based on The New York Times best - selling author Miriam Horn's recent book of the same name, Susan Froemke and John Hoffman's illuminating film spotlights these unlikely conservationists, stewards of the land and sea who don't fit preconceptions of environmentalists.

Darwinism is no more beneficial for the scientific enterprise than it is for theology, encouraging biologists to blind themselves to the exquisite functionality of living things anytime it doesn't fit their preconceptions.

Tell me, too, how someone who sees things as you do — all built into Bayesianism; no need to address whether the problem is different priors or different sources of information relevant to truth - seeking likelihood ratios vs. a form of biased perception that opportunisitcally bends whatever evidence is presented to fit a preconception; no need apparently either for empirical study on any of this — can straighten out someone who says the key to dispelling public conflict over climate change is just to disseminate study findings on scientific consensus.

Not exact matches

When so many syntheses of thought have been shown to be too small a garment to fit a growing world of knowledge, when so many preconceptions have had to be revised in every field of knowledge, the modern man is in no sympathetic mood to listen to proofs for the existence of a personal God unless the very knowledge he has so recently acquired can be geared to the demonstration of such an Absolute.

The preconceptions lead to the interpretations that fit what you want it to.

A big piece of a parent's responsibility is to clearly see each of their children for who they are, independent of parental preconceptions and dreams, and to foster that individual's strengths and enthusiasm for life, instead of struggling to fit him or her into society's narrow definitions of success.

«It's a well - established finding that most people prefer to read or otherwise be exposed to information that fits rather than challenges their political preconceptions,» said research team leader Dan Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and professor of psychology at Yale Law School.

But when I first traipsed through the heart of Rabanastre and the Mosphoran Highwaste and the Feywood, felling enemies and unlocking licenses and exploring the lush world of Ivalice, I spent nearly seventy hours trying to fit FFXII's square peg into the round hole of my preconceptions of what Final Fantasy was.

The more we can move toward embracing the best of all worlds, and choosing our tools according to what works best, not what fits our own cultural, ideological or political preconceptions, the better chance we have of meeting the challenges that await.

This is not all that complicated to understand if one actually wants to understand science rather than to try to make the science fit one's ideological preconceptions.

Your previous application was made from preconceptions about the company and how you might fit into it, but you should have a much clearer idea now about what your bosses» value in their employees.