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"Just remember that your worldview isn't a perfect house that was built to last forever..." (Original Post) kpete May 2017 OP
Yep, world views to their beholders Thomas Hurt May 2017 #1
This applies to ALL of us, even if we think we're smart. alarimer May 2017 #2

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. Yep, world views to their beholders
Fri May 5, 2017, 03:56 PM
May 2017

are great and comfortable mansions, when really they are fair to middling housing developments that inevitably attract squatters, drug dealers and corrupt cops.

alarimer

(16,245 posts)
2. This applies to ALL of us, even if we think we're smart.
Fri May 5, 2017, 04:03 PM
May 2017

But interestingly enough, for very liberal subjects, the correction actually worked. For centrists and only slightly left-of-center, there was no statistically significant effect (of the correction).

https://daily.jstor.org/the-backfire-effect/

I read something lately that seemed to call the backfire effect into question, but I can't find it.

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