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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Confirmation Bias

By Tangotiger, 12:26 PM

Depodesta:

So, there we sit discussing the skills of a highly qualified and tested group where the distinction between players is very, very thin. However, what becomes clear is that for the players we want to keep in big league camp, we generally talk about what they can do. For the players we want to send down, we tend to focus on what they can’t do, so the decisions seem obvious (which they’re not). Understand, I keep using “we” because every one of us in the room is guilty - we can’t help ourselves!

Later on, someone commented on how Jeter is such an example, to which I replied:

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