See also "Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues": > Instead of interventions focused on objective

See also "Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues": > Instead of interventions focused on objective knowledge alone, these findings suggest that focusing on changing individuals’ perceptions of their own knowledge may be a helpful first step. The challenge then becomes finding appropriate ways to convince anti-consensus individuals that they are not as knowledgeable as they think they are. One option may be to encourage people to try to explain the mechanisms underlying the complex scientific phenomena at issue. This has been shown to reduce subjective knowledge (33, 44) and increase deference to experts (45). Another way to potentially make feelings of ignorance more salient to people is to give them reference points. People feel uncertain about choices they understand less well when considering options together, but not when evaluating them separately (38).This finding suggests that people may be led to realize that they know less about vaccination, for example, than about mechanisms they are more familiar with (from their careers or hobbies say), if presented in parallel. * https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0038 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0038 Or, as Boing Boing stated, "Scientists study why people do not believe in scientific studies": * https://boingboing.net/2023/06/14/scientists-study-why-people-do-not-believe-in-scientific-studies.html https://boingboing.net/2023/06/14/scientists-study-why-peopl...