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Don't forget the studies implying that, when presented with evidence to the contrary, people will hold their original beliefs stronger. The more I learn about
by Wingman4l7 13y ago
Don't forget the studies implying that, when presented with evidence to the contrary, people will hold their original beliefs stronger. The more I learn about everything, the less certain I am about anything; I wish more people were the same.
The idea is to come up with a metaphor that is as short and sweet as it is compelling. As much as the idea of "selling" truth disgusts me, we need to "market" the unpleasant realities of a filter as effectively as politicians have sold the lie of it being "for the children" in order to have a fighting chance of preventing it.
- sspiff 13y agoI hadn't heard that before, can you provide any reference or source for this? I think I'll need it in future discussions :)
- Wingman4l7 13y ago> when presented with evidence to the contrary, people will hold their original beliefs stronger Actually Googling my phrase seems to give pretty good results -- descriptive powers FTW! :D The name for it appears to be "the Backfire Effect", classed as a type of cognitive bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#Backfire_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#Backfire_eff... http://www.skepdic.com/backfireeffect.html http://www.skepdic.com/backfireeffect.html
- sspiff 13y agoThank you!