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I'm not particularly well versed in SE, though I've watched many videos and listened to many podcasts. I feel like the example of a favorite sports team is inef
by mynameisash 4y ago
I'm not particularly well versed in SE, though I've watched many videos and listened to many podcasts. I feel like the example of a favorite sports team is ineffective because all practical conversations are around a belief that is substantive and meaningful to how one lives their life (with some detours to understand the nature of reality, such as the Tic Tac test).
So instead, maybe somebody says they don't trust vaccines because they know someone whose kid was diagnosed with autism after getting vaccinated. A potential follow-up question might be, "Do you know anyone who was diagnosed but who didn't get vaccinated?" Or a hypothetical, "What if you met someone who was diagnosed but who didn't get vaccinated? Would that change your belief?"
Getting them to work their own way through their beliefs - not necessarily to change said beliefs but to examine them - is the point. And given what I feel can be some REALLY far out beliefs than people have, I think it's normal to see SE practitioners sometimes lose their cool a bit or have their opinions/beliefs show.