So your saying i'm lying or something? (*facepalms*)
It might be good to calm down. No one called you a liar (that I saw, didn't read the whole thread)
If you want to turn what people are saying into a criticism, then the worst they are saying is "you are probably mistaken in how you are interpreting this."
And if you find "I think you are mistaken" as an out-of-bounds criticism, then note two things:
1) you are implicitly making the exact same assertion. You are saying you think Arcanaville is mistaken in her knowledge of the way the computer code works.
2) as far as discussions on the internet go, this is a pretty mild criticism.
When people bring up concepts like observer bias, confirmation bias, and the fallibility of human memory, keep in mind that the people that bring up these issues usually are the type of people who are perfectly aware the same criticisms apply to themselves. Which is why they are also usually very good about wanting to use objective measures like data and scientific rigor to double-check things.
It's not a insult, it's an attempt to set the criteria which would resolve the argument in an objective manner.
When people say that these phenomena apply to human cognition, they are including themselves.
(Insert mandatory joke about Arcanaville really being a computer instead of a human here)
