>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.

>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.