belief

[graydon]

I saw a lot of people post an oatmeal comic in the past couple days. It's called "you're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you" and it makes a stab at discussing the so-called "backfire effect", the (well known) tendency for a person, when told some fact that contradicts their beliefs, to disbelieve the fact and increase their belief to

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[nancylebov]

https://www.poynter.org/2016/fact-checking-doesnt-backfire-new-study-suggests/436983/