Sentences with phrase «suit preconceptions»

There are several points on which you interpret the evidence to suit your preconceptions Jimbo.

But it's clear from the work of Dan Kahan and Anthony Leiserowitz at Yale, among others, that simply describing those findings more frequently or even more powerfully (on the front page or nightly news) doesn't matter much, given the human tendency to sift and select information to suit preconceptions.

Not exact matches

Needless to say, I had a ton of preconceptions about why CrossFit wouldn't suit me.

B) They decide that the sugar life does not suit them because the sugar daddies that they are meeting are considerably less desirable to them then their preconceptions of a sugar daddy.

This use of convenient evidence that suits one's preconceptions, while ignoring the bulk of the evidence, is called cherry picking.

Sensational stories that much of the readership of a newspaper like to read, because it suits their own preconceptions, irrespective of the credibility of those stories, helps to sell newspapers.