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Bad evidence might help you "win" arguments, but the onlookers aren't going to be convinced.

• 411111111111111 3y ago
  We're currently living in the age of misinformation precisely because this isn't true. The onlookers are the people that generally don't understand the topic that's being discussed, which creates this illusion of making a rational decision, even though it's entirely driven by emotion.
• godelski 3y ago
  As much as I'd love this to be true, evidence suggests otherwise. We wouldn't be in a lot of this mess in the first place if this were true. In certain settings (e.g. academic) you're absolutely correct, but in public I don't think you are.