095 - The Backfire Effect - Part Three
You Are Not So Smart
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Changing People's Minds
The influence of misinformation is pervasive. When we correct a story that people say, oh, yeah, I know you corrected this. But then we ask them use of the information, they're referring to stuff that they know is false. They opt for the wrong explanation over an incomplete model in the absence of a better one. The threat of decoherence will not allow them to accept that wrongness. People easily, freely and without resistance, replace it with the better explanation instead.
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