In a study, researchers found that as the number of blue dots decreased, people started calling a wider range of colors blue. In other words, they came to disagree at the level of perception itself on something that we would normally consider an aspect of objective reality.
In this episode we explore prevalence induced concept change. In a nutshell, when we set out to change the world by reducing examples of something we have deemed problematic, and we succeed, a host of psychological phenomena can mask our progress and make those problems seem intractable -- as if we are only treading water when, in fact, we’ve created the change we set out to make.
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