Thursday, March 15, 2012

I know the truth, so don’t bother me with facts.


I know the truth, so don’t bother me with facts.

In the article “I know the truth, so don’t bother me with facts” Jeffery Kluger explains why people insist to believe in rumors rather than facts. The author quote the recent studies made by R. Kelly and Erik Nisbet based on 750 people who had the wrong conception of Islamic cultural center. They researchers came up with conclusion that even though, with all the facts that have been given to those people, they tend to keep their prior beliefs, instead of changing their opinion. Our mind is predisposed to bias, it resist rational explanation. If rumors reinforce our beliefs we are happy to ignore the facts and protect our faith by subscribing to rumors.

1 comment:

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