Facts and Reason

I thought the matter that the book addressed about our society's bias towards fact in argument was very intreguing. It is not something that I had ever thought of before or ever thought to look for. Upon reflection I guess I can see, from a psychological standpoint, why that may be the case. Nobody is claiming that we currently have a tendency to just point to some number, law or graph an subsequently say that the case is closed, rather I think that this bias manifests itself in our feeling of security that comes out of having our claims backed up by something ostensibly indisputible and objective.