tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475970260090876541.post8305135426819720947..comments2008-04-18T09:04:00.682-04:00Will McAuliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00151670400087616382noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475970260090876541.post-68963710132945184082008-04-18T09:04:00.000-04:002008-04-18T09:04:00.000-04:002008-04-18T09:04:00.000-04:00Has anyone read Farhad Manjoo's new book, "True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society"? NYTIMES editorialist Nicholas D. Kristof mentions this book in our local op-ed page, where Manjoo cites a Stanford University study re: capital punishment. Kristof says, "The students were shown the same two studies: One suggested that exectuions have a deterrent effect that reduces subsequent murders, and the other doubted that. Whatever their stance, the students found the study that supported their position to be well conducted and persuasive and the other one to be profoundly flawed. 'That led to a funny result. People in the study became polarized', Manjoo writes."<BR/>Kristof calls this the best political book so far this year - its theme being our personal biases in the way we absorb information. Perhaps his book offers interesting support for the wisdom of InCase's goal for a moratorium on the death penalty.Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02858691565965242748noreply@blogger.com