Exposed to facts, misinformed believe lies more strongly

[Tez3]

There are people though that whatever they tell you you can't believe them! We all know someone like that, they can tell you your own name and address but you have to check first before you agree lol!

'Flip flopper' I like it ..desciptive!

 

[Blade96]

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/07/12/exposed-to-facts-the-misinformed-believe-lies-more-strongly/

I read of this when I studied USSR history. and then people who had grown up with Stalin were exposed to some of the truths about him via Khrushchev and it was a real shock. and many of them even today a lot of the Russian people still think of stalin positively.

It is easy to see how people who believe something, exposed to something else, wouldnt change their views. I dont think they're stupid. I see how it woulednt be easy for them to accept.

 

[Archangel M]

Funny how it's always THEM..or THOSE people who are stupid, misinformed, etc.

 

[Tez3]

I read of this when I studied USSR history. and then people who had grown up with Stalin were exposed to some of the truths about him via Khrushchev and it was a real shock. and many of them even today a lot of the Russian people still think of stalin positively.

It is easy to see how people who believe something, exposed to something else, wouldnt change their views. I dont think they're stupid. I see how it woulednt be easy for them to accept.

You can't blame them though, the Soviets made lying to the people an art form. The media was controlled by the State so any information that came out was with the permission and the views of the current regime, there was no reason to believe yet another Soviet leader. In their situation who's to know who tells the truth or what the truth even is. Even now we don't know everything that went on there during the Soviet years.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

You ever notice....anyone driving faster than you is a maniac, and anyone driving slower than you is an *******? I wonder why that is.......

 

[SensibleManiac]

Besides, what are fact anyway?

Facts are whatever has been proven by evidence and the scientific method to be true.

Facts are always verifiable or they are not facts,

I think this article and study is very important in teaching us that we need to develop our logical faculties and apply them when trying to understand truth and facts.

If not we're just talking through our asses

Anything else is just rationalization. In other words emotional thinking.
That's the difference between being rational and rationalizing.

And by US I mean ALL OF US.

 

[chrispillertkd]

Funny how it's always THEM..or THOSE people who are stupid, misinformed, etc.

Kind of by definition, really

Pax,

Chris

 

[Thesemindz]

http://hanson.gmu.edu/moretrue.pdf

Humans today have many epistemic virtues. We are clever animals who
have discovered a vast division of labor, enabling our unprecedented and
rapidly increasing power and understanding of science, industry, and more.
But we also have many epistemic vices, such as using our knowledge to
enable cruelty.

In particular, we often choose beliefs that are not the closest feasible
approximation to the truth. By this I do not mean that we fail to spend
all possible resources on obtaining or analyzing information. Instead, I
mean that our beliefs are biased because we have motivations other than
that of approximating truth while conserving resources (Mele, 2001). For
example, because we like to think well of ourselves and our groups, we
tend to overestimate our abilities and morality, exaggerate our influence,
and take credit for our successes while blaming external factors for our
failures (Giannetti, 1997).

http://www.gmu.edu/centers/publicchoice/faculty%20pages/Tyler/deceive.pdf

This happens when people agree on what the answers would be in each imaginable world, but argue over which of these imaginable worlds is the real world. This theory can thus apply to disputes about facts that are specific or general, hard or easy to verify. It can cover the age of a car, the correctness of quantum mechanics, whether God created the universe, and which political candidate is more likely to induce prosperity. It can even apply to morality, when people believe there are objectively correct answers to moral questions.

Are we addicted to ideas?

Video game addiction, or more broadly video game overuse, is excessive or compulsive use of computer and video games that interferes with daily life. Instances have been reported in which users play compulsively, isolating themselves from, or from other forms of, social contact and focusing almost entirely on in-game achievements rather than broader life events.

Psychologists who see pornography as addictive may consider online, often Internet, pornography more addictive than ordinary pornography because of its wide availability, explicit nature, and the privacy that online viewing offers. Some claim that "addicts" regularly spend extended periods of time searching the internet for new or increasingly hardcore pornography.

...defines workaholism by signposts and characteristics, as both a substance addiction (to adrenaline and other stress hormones) and as a process addiction (to compulsively doing or avoiding work). WA further defines compulsive working as a progressive, addictive illness...

 

[Bruno@MT]

Funny how it's always THEM..or THOSE people who are stupid, misinformed, etc.

This calls for a quote from my favorite author, Terry Pratchett:

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things