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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 64159" data-attributes="member: 1106">One bite, one hit on believing that god is the lochness monster or something.It essentially tries to trick you into saying that you need proof to believe in one thing, but not another.&nbsp; When this fails, it tries to catch you out on whether you dismiss belief in something due to lack of evidence and not another thing.&nbsp; I think the sleight of hand it pulls is that it phrases some questions as absolutes and others as vagaries, and then draws an absolute conclusion out of an answer to a vague question and compares it to an answer to an you made to an absolute question.It reminds me of a psychology quiz I took once which was supposed to detect whether you were lying or not by asking essentially the same set of questions in different ways.&nbsp; What it ignored was that if you had no great conviction either way, the way the question was put could determine how you thought about the answer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 64159, member: 1106"] One bite, one hit on believing that god is the lochness monster or something. It essentially tries to trick you into saying that you need proof to believe in one thing, but not another. When this fails, it tries to catch you out on whether you dismiss belief in something due to lack of evidence and not another thing. I think the sleight of hand it pulls is that it phrases some questions as absolutes and others as vagaries, and then draws an absolute conclusion out of an answer to a vague question and compares it to an answer to an you made to an absolute question. It reminds me of a psychology quiz I took once which was supposed to detect whether you were lying or not by asking essentially the same set of questions in different ways. What it ignored was that if you had no great conviction either way, the way the question was put could determine how you thought about the answer. [/QUOTE]

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