Between Two Worlds

20. Proportionality Bias in Conversations about Religion-- Sterre Mense (Part 4)


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Critical Thinker and Atheist, Sterre Mense, is back with his last installment of his interview with Scott and Joey. In this one, he turns the focus onto Scott and the biases that can exist in conversations about religion. Specifically he confronts Scott with the idea of "proportionality bias," which is the process by which someone experiences and extraordinary circumstances and thus concludes there must be an extraordinary explanation. Put another way, people often believe in God after some sort of "supernatural" experience. For Sterre, this is a bias that points to humans desire to have an explanation for everything that happens. Even the unexplainable.

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