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Belief in the backfire effect confirms the bias many people have towards believing their political opponents are idiots, immune to rational thought.
by darkpuma 7y ago
Belief in the backfire effect confirms the bias many people have towards believing their political opponents are idiots, immune to rational thought.
- Veen 7y agoThat’s only true if you believe your own side and yourself aren’t just as vulnerable.
- darkpuma 7y agoI didn't say one side experiences this more than another. There are rational people on all "sides". Rational people may come to disagree with each other if they have different information available to them, or if they simply have different priorities. Anybody who thinks all of their opponents are irrational, by virtue of being their opponent, are themselves irrational in that respect. However that says nothing about the political distribution of this particular cognitive bias. I have made no claims concerning that.