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According to ScienceAlert (This article and its images were originally posted on ScienceAlert September 9, 2018 at 07:59AM.)
This is why some people are so confident in their “facts”.
Why is it sometimes so hard to convince someone that the world is indeed a globe, or that climate change is actually caused by human activity, despite the overwhelming evidence?
Scientists think they might have the answer, and it’s less to do with lack of understanding, and more to do with the feedback they’re getting.
Getting positive or negative reactions to something you do or say is a greater influence on your thinking than logic and reasoning, the new research suggests – so if you’re in a group of like-minded people, that’s going to reinforce your thinking.
Receiving good feedback also encourages us to think we know more than we actually do.
In other words, the more sure we become that our current position is right, the less likely we are to take into account other opinions or even cold, hard scientific data.
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This article and its images were originally posted on [ScienceAlert] September 9, 2018 at 07:59AM. All credit to both the author DAVID NIELD and ScienceAlert | ESIST.T>G>S Recommended Articles Of The Day.
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