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....They asked the students to act as unbiased referees, marking down all infractions they could spot. The results were remarkable: The Dartmouth fans mainly noticed Princeton's errors, while the Princeton fans concentrated on Dartmouth's......This was a matter of visual perception: Each side, that is, really did "see" a completely different game. When one Dartmouth alumnus was shown a film of the game, he decided it must have been badly edited. He'd heard that his side had played dirty, but where were those parts on the movie? He simply could not see them."
Sounds just like supporters for each side of our Democratic Presidential campaign. Just substitute Princeton for Clinton and Dartmouth for Obama, mix up a bit and, voila! Instant bias.
Freudian slip, Manjoo?
