The Bias that Divides Us. If you are a person of high intelligence, if you are highly educated, and if you are strongly committed to an ideological viewpoint, you will be highly likely to think you have thought your way to your viewpoint. University faculty in the social sciences fit the bill.

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It's like the fallacy of trusting authority, but the authority is yourself.