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It’s not that simple, because there have been many attempts at educating and things haven’t improved. There’s evidence that awareness of biases makes one more
by Joeri 8y ago
It’s not that simple, because there have been many attempts at educating and things haven’t improved.
There’s evidence that awareness of biases makes one more susceptible to them, and that intelligence is also correlated with a higher susceptibility to bias. Intelligence and education give us tools to strengthen the form of our argument, and that enables us to better hang on to bias.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-people-are-stupid https://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-peop...
Also, giving people evidence that disproves their core beliefs tends to strengthen those beliefs, until a certain tipping point, so incomplete education may actually be worse than no education.
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/ https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/
Fixing misinformation is a hard problem. It’s not just a matter of getting people into contact with facts.
- qaq 8y agoI think if people can clearly identify even the more obvious misinformation campaigns by foreign powers targeting them that would already help a good bit.
- prolikewh0a 8y agoWhat about the much more dangerous domestic misinformation/disinformation campaigns? The ones that make you go buy a 12 pack of Coke you don't need that's going to effect your health. What about things like COINTELPRO? What about the beauty product ad telling me I'm ugly and need mascara? We should make Manufacturing Consent and The People's History of The United States mandatory reading for high school students, but that would probably change too many minds against our own system as kids would know how things really work, and how history really happened instead of the wishy-washy 'everything wasn't that bad!' crap they teach in grade school.