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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 09/16/2010 : 13:01:52
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Why "Scientific Consensus" Fails to Persuade
Link to the actual paper.
From the nsf.gov news article:
| He said the more likely reason for the disparity, as supported by the research results, "is that people tend to keep a biased score of what experts believe, counting a scientist as an 'expert' only when that scientist agrees with the position they find culturally congenial." |
Interesting reading!
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 09/16/2010 : 16:13:47 [Permalink]
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Confirmation bias galore.
| "To make sure people form unbiased perceptions of what scientists are discovering, it is necessary to use communication strategies that reduce the likelihood that citizens of diverse values will find scientific findings threatening to their cultural commitments." |
With some people calling for "return to traditional values", it is perhaps not surprising that they also reject, for example, evolution. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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sailingsoul
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Posted - 09/17/2010 : 04:30:57 [Permalink]
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Yes Dude, it is a very interesting read. Good post. For me it does shine a little light on how and why others and including at times myself, reject the concepts or opinions we do. At times contrary to our own and collective best interests. SS
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There are only two types of religious people, the deceivers and the deceived. SS |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 09/17/2010 : 12:29:06 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by sailingsoul
Yes Dude, it is a very interesting read. Good post. For me it does shine a little light on how and why others and including at times myself, reject the concepts or opinions we do. At times contrary to our own and collective best interests. SS
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Yeah, the most difficult bias to recognize is our own.
I thought it was very interesting to see some confirmation of a thought I had been assuming true, that our cultural influences strongly impact how we view the conclusions of experts.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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New study on why people reject experts
