[ExI] vote changes and fun

[William Flynn Wallace]

It is likely that no one in this group knows more about attitude change
than me.  Given?  That said, attitude change (AC) of any significant
degree, is a rare thing, and usually only happens when someone is given a
lot of ideas or data that he has no counterargument for.  In technical
terms, if a person has only been exposed to one-sided persuasions, such as
in one's church, then that person can be flipped fairly easily.

However, if a person has been exposed not only to his own point of view but
the other side as well, a two-sided communication, then he is much harder
to flip.  If in addition, he has been exposed to counterarguments to the
other side, then he maybe be impossible even to move one little bit towards
the other side, and you may be in danger of making his position even firmer
where he is, or even moving him farther away from the other side.  (This
can go on:  counterarguments to the counterarguments etc.)

So - while these discussions of Trump and Hillary are interesting, I'll bet
any amount that no one's position will be changed.  Y'all are too smart and
know too much (and, I think, may suspect much more than you know about
Hillary).

Fun?  Yes.  Persuasive?  Not in a coon's age.

bill w
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