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I assume that the authors of the paper want to change minds; if so, they should have titled and approached this topic differently. Research shows pretty conclus
by vessenes 11y ago
I assume that the authors of the paper want to change minds; if so, they should have titled and approached this topic differently. Research shows pretty conclusively people don't change their minds when directly confronted with a conclusion contrary to their preferred one.
Instead, I would suggest titles like "How much productive work does the government subsidize for welfare recipients?" with the surprising answer inside. Or even "An analysis of lazy welfare recipients" if they're willing to take backlash from more social-aid minded colleagues who only read the title.
- drapper 11y agocan you link to any such research? that's a topic I'd love to read more about, but don't know where to start even. thx!
- vessenes 11y agoPerusing Brendan Nyhan's papers will get you a lot of reading in short order: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/ http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/. This is one paper on the topic from another group: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/10/12/0956797610385953.abstract http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/10/12/095679761038... This paper from Yale is pretty interesting: http://www.motherjones.com/files/kahan_paper_cultural_cognition_of_scientific_consesus.pdf http://www.motherjones.com/files/kahan_paper_cultural_cognit...