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Excellent article on: Why facts don't change minds... (Original Post) pbmus Jul 2018 OP
Thanks pbmus!! donkeypoofed Jul 2018 #1
The best bit Chris Studio Jul 2018 #2
+1, I'll try this uponit7771 Jul 2018 #3

donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
1. Thanks pbmus!!
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 06:18 PM
Jul 2018

That excellent article explains so much!! I've got to say that I am guilty of."confirmational bias" as i am not interested at all in other people's thinking especially if it's different than mine.

 

Chris Studio

(82 posts)
2. The best bit
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 07:33 PM
Jul 2018

"In a study conducted in 2012, they asked people for their stance on questions like: Should there be a single-payer health-care system? Or merit-based pay for teachers?

Participants were asked to rate their positions depending on how strongly they agreed or disagreed with the proposals.

Next, they were instructed to explain, in as much detail as they could, the impacts of implementing each one. Most people at this point ran into trouble. Asked once again to rate their views, they ratcheted down the intensity, so that they either agreed or disagreed less vehemently"

In my own life I've evolved from arguing facts with people about e.g. Socialism - which I'm not advocating - to asking them to define the word. 99.9% of the time people can't. Mostly they don't even try. Because they know they don't know.

Hopefully forcing people to acknowledge their ignorance they will be less vehement in their beliefs about that topic going forward.

At the very least it usually makes people stopping attacking each other.... So that's a kind of a win.

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