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Post #9 Reasons for Belief: Patternicity

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Post #9 Reasons for Belief: Patternicity

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Definition:
The reason for belief, Patternicity, involves forming patterns to objects to something that is recognizable to an individual.

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This example of patternicity places a very popular internet celebrity, once known as Harambe the gorilla, in the shape of a Cheeto, or so the founder believes. This is not the first time a person or thing has been seen in a food product, but in this case many other people must have seen it as well… since it sold for $100,000 USD.

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In the 26th century BC, the Egyptians constructed the Great Pyramid of Giza, an architectural marvel that would remain the tallest structure in the world for millennia, and still stands to this day.

In 1499 AD, Michelangelo completed the Pieta, a transcendent marriage of classical ideals and divine imagination long considered one of the finest works ever freed from stone.

In 2017, a Flamin' Hot Cheeto that looks like a dead gorilla was put up for sale on the internet.

Well, we had a good run.

We're going to choose NOT to believe the Cheeto - which "looks like Harambe the Gorilla" in the way any given Cheeto looks like anything - sold for almost $100,000 after a 132-episode bidding war.

That's what the eBay page says, but if you believe that, then you are admitting the flame of human innovation dies here, snuffed out under an amorphous log of cornmeal and monosodium glutamate.

The seller of this foul totem does, however, appear to be legit. The account has been active since 2008 and has enough buyer and seller feedback for there to be a dim possibility that someone doled out a luxury cars' worth of cash on a Cheeto. CNN has reached out for comment. Really, we did.

To salt the wound, there are now dozens of Harambe Cheeto-related items polluting the eBay listings, a cruel burlesque at the nadir of consumerism and irony and possibly humanity itself.

If you want one, you can buy one with your hard-earned money. Or, you could open up any bag of Cheetos and squint. It doesn't matter. Nothing matters anymore.

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Cheeto that looks like Harambe worth $100,000? Nothing is okay anymore | CNN

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In the 26th century BC, the Egyptians constructed the Great Pyramid of Giza, an architectural marvel that would remain the tallest structure in the world for millennia, and still stands to this day. In 1499 AD, Michelangelo completed the Pieta , a transcendent marriage of classical ideals and divine imagination long considered one of the finest works ever freed from stone.

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The reason for belief, Ideology, is having one’s own ideas and beliefs. It is used to shape their mentality when approaching topics.

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Black Lives Matter is an ideological movement which is meant to help stop violence and racism towards black people. This movement has gained a lot of traction on the left leaning political activists, but has also gained negative traction with members being black supremacists; which is when their ideology goes too far.

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Post #10 Critical Thinking Step-By-Step:

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Post #10 Critical Thinking Step-By-Step:

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Definition:
The red flag, Red Herring involves introducing unrelated or irrelevant information to an argument. It aims to distract from the main issue or argument at hand with information that has no impact or relevance.

Connection:
This article outlines one of the current issues surrounding the Trump administration in the United States; distracting the American people from the darker problems associated with him. In this example, Trump is using a voter fraud excuse to take away from the fact that Russia could have been manipulating Trump and the presidential election.

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With a mass of news headlines about Russia, intelligence agencies and a dossier full of compromising information about the President-elect, it may be tempting to zero in on the part about his alleged "perverted sexual acts", let Donald Trump deny it all and forget about it. But don't fall for that trap. Trump will win if we ignore the larger issues.

It would be easy to get distracted; after all we have done it so many times before. When Trump paid $25 million to settle a class action lawsuit for fraud over his now defunct Trump University, he simply sent a tweet condemning the cast of a Broadway musical for publicly embarrassing his vice president-elect Mike Pence. The incredible fact that the President-elect was sued for fraud has quietly sunk into the murky depths.

Pam Bond i, the Republican Florida attorney general, who he allegedly bribed in return to not prosecute him over Trump University, is now speculated to become part of his government team. No one is really talking about that either.

While new details emerge about Russia and his ties with the Kremlin, Trump is tweeting about the Apprentice, Meryl Streep and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"[During and after the campaign] Trump had about 200 scandals, Hillary Clinton had two - the emails and the Clinton Foundation," said Mark Smith, professor of political science at the University of Washington.

"The point is they were the only two that media focused on, but they came back to them again and again, and because Trump had so many [scandals], none of them got much traction."

Trump is distracting us right now with a week of absolute frenzy: confirmation hearings of civil rights abusers, oil and banking tycoons one after the other, and his first press conference in six months. Few people are questioning why we are so keen to hear him speak, as opposed to questioning his silence of half a year.

"He has discovered as an active candidate that [twitter] can be a powerful vehicle for substituting his own thought for what might be a more serious and damaging line of media inquiry," said Thomas Mann, senior fellow at Brookings and resident scholar at the University of Berkeley.

"It's perfectly compatible with his psyche: the man does not take criticism well and the best way to deal with it is to attack whoever criticised him."

Trump is not communicating openly and regularly with the public, and he is instituting a cabinet line-up of which the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany would certainly be proud. With every fresh wave of indignation against the President-elect, Trump can send one tweet, let us vultures scrabble around in the dust to decipher his 140 characters, and he can sail up the elevator to the gilded apartment in Trump Tower.

Well, Comrades - let us not be distracted by more knee-jerk reaction tweets.

What would prove to be very concerning, if verified, however, is his alleged and longstanding ties to the Kremlin. The dossier certainly proved troubling enough for senator John McCain to hand it over to the FBI.

And, don't forget: even amid controversy about Russia, there is a silver lining here for Trump. He has still not released his tax returns. But who is talking about that now?

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Donald Trump is trying his hardest to distract us and we must not let him

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With a mass of news headlines about Russia, intelligence agencies and a dossier full of compromising information about the President-elect, it may be tempting to zero in on the part about his alleged "perverted sexual acts", let Donald Trump deny it all and forget about it. But don't fall for that trap.

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Post #3 Red Flag: Confusion of Correlation with Causation

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Post #3 Red Flag: Confusion of Correlation with Causation

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Definition:
The red flag, Confusion of Correlation with Causation explains just because one incident happens does not mean the next incident is the result of the first one. There is often more variables happening which causes said incidents to occur.

Connection:
This digital comic explains Correlation and Causation quite well. It shows that he falls for the red flag by referring to it, and then understands the difference between them. Finally, the punchline of the comic is him refuting the causation even though it is accurate in that case.

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The red flag, Appeal to Authority involves using other individuals ‘authority’ to explain and support a claim in which they have no expertise in. This usually involves celebrities and doctors that allows them to use their popularity and background to support claims.

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This article outlines a list of people who have endorsed Bernie Sanders for the democratic nomination, and with their influence tried to get others to do the same. Even though celebrities like Will Ferrell have no more of an understanding about politics than any other average citizen, him being famous alone will cause regular citizens to think differently.

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Clockwise from top left: Susan Sarandon, Mark Ruffalo, Will Ferrell , Sarah Silverman, Killer Mike and Steve Wozniak are all backing Bernie Sanders. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters, Andrew Kelly/Reuters, Dan Steinberg/AP, Jermey Chan/Getty Images, Alli Harvey/Getty Images, SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg News)

They can sell shampoo and raise funds for disaster relief, but when it comes to politics, no one knows for sure whether celebrity endorsements matter.

Researchers haven't reached a concrete conclusion. One study discovered Oprah's endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 significantly increased the chances that her magazine subscribers would vote for him. Another study found that college students were not influenced by household names' choices - but instead sometimes thought less of the celebrities after they learned their political views.

The only consensus seems to be that a celebrity's status matters. If you like Jennifer Aniston and she endorses someone, you might let that influence you. But if you don't like Aniston very much, her endorsement could adversely affect your chances of supporting a candidate.

Solution? Pile on as many celebrities as possible, increasing the odds that the list will include someone for everyone. That appears to be the strategy behind the Bernie Sanders campaign, which debuted a list of 128 celebrity endorsements this weekend.

From 29-year-old DJs to 70-year-old film icons, Sanders is lining up the star power to boost his appeal. Here are a few of the names on the " Artists for Bernie " list.
Actors and comedians:
Danny DeVito, who has recently been tweeting out his love for Bernie between very odd pictures of his " troll foot."

Bernie Sanders...you're our only hope Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Danny DeVito (@DannyDeVito) August 1, 2015

Justin Bartha, best known for playing Doug in "The Hangover."

Actress and activist Susan Sarandon.

The Hulk, Mark Ruffalo.

Will Ferrell is one of the biggest names on the list, alongside "Anchorman" pal David Koechner, John C. Reilly of "Step Brothers" and "Talladega Nights," and Adam McKay who co-wrote all three films.

Other funny people: Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman and "Daily Show" writer Lizz Winstead.

Ben Foster, who recently admitted he took performance-enhancing drugs to prepare for his role as Lance Armstrong, and his actor-musician brother, Jon Foster.

22-year-old Ezra Miller of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and "Trainwreck."

"Mad Max: Fury Road" actress Zoë Kravitz, daughter of Lenny Kravitz.

Jeremy Piven, who plays Ari Gold in "Entourage."

"Cheers" favorite George Wendt.

See how random this list is getting? We're not even including the vast array of many B-list stars.
Musicians:
Everybody needs a good campaign song, and Sanders has long since given up the hope of singing his own. Vermont newspaper Seven Days found out that the candidate attempted to sing his own folk album as mayor of Burlington in 1987. Todd Lockwood, the local musician who asked Sanders to record, told Seven Days, "As talented of a guy as he is, he has absolutely not one musical bone in his body, and that became painfully obvious from the get-go."

So Sanders just read the lyrics while the music played in the background. Here's his "singing" "This Land Is Your Land."

As you can hear, he's in need of some support - and he has found it in just about every genre. There are 78 musicians supporting him, including:

Foo Fighters lead guitarist Chris Shiflett and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer.

Lady-anthem extraordinaires Belinda Carlisle, Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams.

Brandon Christopher McCartney a.k.a. Lil B, Brad Terrence Jordan a.k.a. Scarface, and Run the Jewels' Michael "Killer Mike" Render, who said on Twitter that Sanders's commitment to restoring the Voting Rights Act sealed the deal for his support.

"just off the phone with Sen. Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders ) great Convo, Great Man, will be a great POTUS!" #FeelTheBern #HeIsAnAlly
- Killer Mike (@KillerMike) September 10, 2015

Composers Nicholas Britell ("12 Years a Slave") and Hans Zimmer ("The Lion King," "Pirates of the Carribean," "The Dark Knight," etc.).

Alternative rock favorites Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth (no Kim Davis on the list), Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Will Noon of Fun. and Matthew Caws of Nada Surf.

And some classic rock classics: Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash and John Densmore of the Doors. (Curiously missing is Neil Young, who voiced his support for Sanders after Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump tried to use "Rockin' in the Free World." Maybe it's because he's Canadian?)
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Though "Artists for Bernie" is a more sophisticated term than "celebrities for Bernie," there are only three supporters on the list whose work is the kind you'd see in an art museum: photographer Susana Millman, pop artist Ron English and graphic designer Shepard Fairey, who created President Obama's iconic "Hope" logo.

Instead, we have philosopher/Democratic talker Cornel West, Ben Cohen of ice cream company Ben & Jerry's, physician Patch Adams, whose life inspired the Robin Williams movie, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.

Down on Republicans and Democrats, #Bernie2016 #FeelTheBern.
- Steve Wozniak (@stevewoz) September 1, 2015

Forgive us for leaving out your favorite, it's a super long list. Of course, it has quite a force to compete with: Beyoncé, Amy Poehler, Jon Bon Jovi, RuPaul, Snoop Dogg, Ariana Grande, Magic Johnson, Kerry Washington, Carole King, Lena Dunham and 50 Cent have all expressed support for Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Oh, and this happened:

I got my selfie!!! I really loved hearing her speak & hearing her goals for our country! #HillaryForPresident pic.twitter.com/zGpdcGSZBD
- Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) August 7, 2015

(But yes, Chuck Norris is still rooting for Mike Huckabee.)
Read more: What Bernie Sanders means by 'democratic socialism.' Emmy Awards 2015 predictions: Who will win, who deserves to win and who could surprise us all Arnold Schwarzenegger, who may as well be Donald Trump, will host 'Celebrity Apprentice'

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The incredibly random list of celebrities endorsing Bernie Sanders

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They can sell shampoo and raise funds for disaster relief, but when it comes to politics, no one knows for sure whether celebrity endorsements matter. Researchers haven't reached a concrete conclusion. One study discovered Oprah's endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 significantly increased the chances that her magazine subscribers would vote for him.

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The red flag, Proof of Verbosity is displaying loads of information to make something look difficult to understand. It makes use of words and data that can be hard to comprehend so individuals usually accept it for what it is due to information being displayed seems genuine.

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The use of fake science and the placebo effect to influence people to spend money on something they really don’t need is rampant. Originally, scientists figured out that consumers would purchase anything if it sounded correct and scientific: thus the inception of vitamin supplements that human really don’t need. This video example explains this in a humorous and lighthearted way, but also hits on important points.

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Adam Ruins Everything - The Weird Reason We Think Vitamins Are Good for Us (They're Not)

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Definition:
The red flag, Confirmation Bias is looking for evidence to affirm one’s values and beliefs. It involves interpreting and experiencing information to confirm one’s values and beliefs while ignoring other supporting possibilities.

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The picture shows that from the words you use to search on the internet, would usually agree with your points. The first few links in the search would give information that would reaffirm your values, while disregarding or adding few other possibilities to the articles.

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The reason for belief, Unexplained, is trying to make sense of something that has happened or is happening in one’s life. Even though it seems so far-fetched, individuals will always try to make sense of something that seems impossible.

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The Oak Island Treasure some would call an unexplained phenomenon. In Nova Scotia, there exists a hole in the ground that no one reportedly has been able to navigate done far enough to find anything substantial. The hole appears to have been man-made, but the technology to do so wouldn’t take sense based on its origins. There is reportedly treasure at the bottom, but it is thus far a mystery.

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By: Hovhannes John Mksyartinian, Julian Finley, Amar Al-Adil, Rafael Chu