Given a thimbleful of facts
we rush to make generalizations
as large as a tub.
Gordon W. Allport
20th-Century U.S. Psychologist and Educator
This blog looks at the D.C. New Moon for Sunday, April 27th. A basic conclusion is at the end for the uninitiated. New Moons are usually useful for starting new projects, and thus are good for important "new…
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Its so true....
...we habitually construct all sorts of scenarios and generalisations in our heads about people and how people looked that morning or their facial expression or that they did or did not say something ...and we believe we know now and we begin to construct something about that person and peddle our opinion it as if it was fact...