James Drogan

This morning, Greg Mankiw's Blog brought me a link to this article.  It caught my eye because of the continuing conversations that Dave and I have regarding the lack of critical thinking on the part of the body politic -- those I once characterized as being satisfied with "a beer, a boat, and a sound-bite."

While the article has a definite political theme running through it, there are some fundamental ideas that bear consideration by, for example, my students at Maritime as they develop their critical thinking and communications skills.

"The more knowledgeable we are, the more we follow a high-investment strategy of selectively accepting evidence that favors our outlook while discounting contrary information." should be seen as a caution to all of us.