Entering play this week, no catcher has amassed more points in the PFBL than Stephen Vogt. Apparently he fancies himself a comedian as well:
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Friday, February 24, 2012
The Inner Uriah Heep
Dave Cameron at Fangraphs writes:
In Colorado, a two hour delay in specimen collection is enough to get a Driving Under the Influence Per Se charge dismissed. Did you know that?This is the unfortunate power of confirmation bias. As humans, we often take incomplete bits of information and force them into a predetermined world view because they reinforce our current belief system, and we’re wired to want to be right about things. So, despite the fact that we’re often handed pieces of information that should fall far short of being the basis for a strong opinion, we take that information as evidence that the thing we already believed to be true is indeed true, and we fortify our opinions to the point where our conclusions far outstrip what actual evidence we have.
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