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Socially: Admitting you were wrong makes you look incompetent. If you were wrong then, why should anyone listen to you now? Physiologically: Changing ingrained

by tormeh 11y ago

Socially: Admitting you were wrong makes you look incompetent. If you were wrong then, why should anyone listen to you now? Physiologically: Changing ingrained opinions on which many others are formed probably requires a good deal of brain re-wiring and may require solid plasticity. I'm unsure how much of a problem this is for the brain. I guess there are a lot of other costs, but I can't come up with more.

ggchappell 11y ago
> Admitting you were wrong makes you look incompetent. It certainly makes you feel like you look incompetent. I wonder how much it makes others judge you as incompetent. Perhaps this issue has been researched? (I'm guessing that it might matter a great deal how one was wrong; there are different ways to be wrong, and different levels of wrongness.)