Why do the uneducated people think they’re more intelligent than the educated people? Maybe this explains it.
Archive for the ‘psychology’ Category:
2021-11-23 Research, P Hacking
Is most research wrong? Odds of incorrect research, P hacking. https://www.facebook.com/veritasium/videos/1235459386943855/
2021-11-21 Climate Change Disinformation Types Of People
Study finds there are four types of climate change disinformation people. Immune to disinformation Vulnerable to disinformation Receptive to disinformation Actively amplify disinformation Find out which of these is who you’re talking to. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/16/research-disinformation-stifles-climate-change-talk-tips-to-help.html The second and third types may be worth converting. The fourth is a waste of time. Link to NASA climate change
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2021-11-03 The Enigma Of Climate Inaction
https://youtu.be/WDWhjSUu8UY This hour long video is summed up by the first slide, << Main messages – It’s complicated! – Humans really don’t understand human behaviour. – How we ‘act out’ in life springs from a complex interplay of nature and nurture. – From the perspective of the public good’, H. sapiens is not primarily a
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2021-10-12 Climate Change Deniers Want To Believe Disinformation
The climate change deniers want to believe there is no climate change, that everything will be just fine if we do nothing to combat climate change. Is it fear of uncertainty and upheaval that drives them to fail to deal with reality? These CCDs (climate change deniers) actively seek to prove to themselves that climate
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2021-09-16 Why We Reject Contrary Evidence
Why do humans instinctively reject evidence contrary to their beliefs? https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-why-do-humans-instinctively-reject-evidence-contrary-to-their-beliefs-149436
2021-03-26 Ignorance Is Power
The saying “Knowledge Is Power” has a corollary “Ignorance Is Power.” By this it is meant that politicians have power over people by keeping them ignorant. The politicians use the biased newsmedia to maintain the ignorance by spreading false information. The conflicts between “us” which they claim is the true news, and “them” which they
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