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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy FACTS don't change our minds ...
Even after the evidence for their beliefs has been totally refuted, people fail to make appropriate revisions in those beliefs, the researchers noted. In this case, the failure was particularly impressive, since two data points would never have been enough information to generalize from.
The Stanford studies became famous. Coming from a group of academics in the nineteen-seventies, the contention that people cant think straight was shocking. It isnt any longer. Thousands of subsequent experiments have confirmed (and elaborated on) this finding. As everyone whos followed the researchor even occasionally picked up a copy of Psychology Todayknows, any graduate student with a clipboard can demonstrate that reasonable-seeming people are often totally irrational. Rarely has this insight seemed more relevant than it does right now. Still, an essential puzzle remains: How did we come to be this way?
" ... reasonable-seeming people are often totally irrational ..." and ...
"Providing people with accurate information doesnt seem to help; they simply discount it. Appealing to their emotions may work better, but ..."
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
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Why FACTS don't change our minds ... (Original Post)
PsychoBabble
Feb 2017
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ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)1. Fascinating stuff
I concur with the hypersociability hypothesis, unless, of course, that was a ruse.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)2. This explains why so many people are so screwed up.
We could never figure out how they could be so wrong!
underpants
(182,950 posts)3. This didn't change my mind at all
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)4. That's why Fox News is working.