oy, I got caught out
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/11/theres-more-hope-for-political-fact-checking.html
"...unlike the original study, the subjects in these new ones weren’t just college students..."
Wait, what?
Okay, this is on me, not remembering that the original 2010 study was conducted on college students -- I have no recollection of this being said. But still....
I've spent years, letting myself get depressed by the idea that this study has shown that people's minds cannot be changed by appeals to reason... watching it become adopted as a general truism in discussions, feeding the "post-facts" era, etc...
But all this time, the study was conducted on people in their late teens and early twenties?? The age where you know everything and no one can tell you anything?! I was like that at that age, my friends were, my kids are now, it is a rare exception to find anyone in this age group who significantly veers from this....
Holy mackinaw, if in 2010 they had come out and said "This study proves that you can't change the minds of late teens and early twenties with new facts and appeals to reason", I'd be like "what else is new?"
Holy mackinaw again.
"...unlike the original study, the subjects in these new ones weren’t just college students..."
Wait, what?
Okay, this is on me, not remembering that the original 2010 study was conducted on college students -- I have no recollection of this being said. But still....
I've spent years, letting myself get depressed by the idea that this study has shown that people's minds cannot be changed by appeals to reason... watching it become adopted as a general truism in discussions, feeding the "post-facts" era, etc...
But all this time, the study was conducted on people in their late teens and early twenties?? The age where you know everything and no one can tell you anything?! I was like that at that age, my friends were, my kids are now, it is a rare exception to find anyone in this age group who significantly veers from this....
Holy mackinaw, if in 2010 they had come out and said "This study proves that you can't change the minds of late teens and early twenties with new facts and appeals to reason", I'd be like "what else is new?"
Holy mackinaw again.