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I'm not the one that is biased here. Think about it. Both video content and text content are still content. The writer or creator has the ability to lie and de
by corethree 3y ago
I'm not the one that is biased here. Think about it.
Both video content and text content are still content. The writer or creator has the ability to lie and deceive and produce bad things regardless of the format of the content.
The bias is in people thinking books are better for no logical reason.
As for the research and effort required to read a book. I agree. Watching videos is passive and less effort. I mentioned this in my original comment. But I stated that this extra "effort" leads to bias. It leads you to perceive what you read as "good" simply because you spent more effort on it. When you spend more effort on something.your bias towards it increases by a huge amount.
Right and you caught on to this fact. You stated your disagreement and I respect that.
Overall you're saying books are better because they force your mind to be more active?
But I countered this with saying that the extra activity leads to bias.
You countered that with just reading a large spectrum of books. Which further entrenched my point. Books lead to bias which has the weakness of forcing the reader to consume a spectrum of topics to avoid bias.
- mym1990 3y agoNo, people are biased because they are more likely to seek out content that reinforces their view point…not because something is long or short or takes effort. Given by how reading books is actually a declining activity, I would not say most people see it as a “better” thing than video content. When you read a book, it is up to you to weigh the words, intake the research, vet the author, and then see if you can find some counter points from other sources. If your excuse for being fooled by false content is “well they lied”…you should get some accountability.
- corethree 3y ago>No, people are biased because they are more likely to seek out content that reinforces their view point…not because something is long or short or takes effort. The actual act of seeking is involved with bias. You don't understand people. When someone puts an extraordinary amount of effort into something they become biased for a positive result. Extremely biased. If you don't understand this, you don't understand people, I'm sorry. Books involve much more effort then movies and as a result people are more biased towards books overall. >When you read a book, it is up to you to weigh the words, intake the research, vet the author, and then see if you can find some counter points from other sources. If your excuse for being fooled by false content is “well they lied”…you should get some accountability. What does this have to do with anything? You have to do the same thing when you watch video media. It's the same issue. Of course most people aren't going to spend that much time Vetting every point the author of either the video media or the book. It just doesn't happen that often. However, The book by virtue of requiring effort to decode lends itself to being more believable due to the natural human bias towards things they put effort in. No one is going to spend years of their lives reading every inch of the bible and then come out at the end of that ordeal saying they don't believe. They will.