[ExI] vote changes and fun

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 1:23 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

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> See: Backfire Effect
> <http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Backfire_effect>
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> Quote:
> The backfire effect occurs when, in the face of contradictory
> evidence, established beliefs do not change but actually get stronger.
> The effect has been demonstrated experimentally in psychological
> tests, where subjects are given data that either reinforces or goes
> against their existing biases - and in most cases people can be shown
> to increase their confidence in their prior position regardless of the
> evidence they were faced with.
> In a pessimistic sense, this makes most refutations useless.
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> That's why politics and religion arguments are mostly a waste of time.
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### Politics and religion are about power and identity, not about truth, so
obviously factual claims are of limited utility.

Rafał
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