This point right here (and the whole thread too) 🤌
Social science: research shows facts alone don’t change people’s minds
Scientists in audience: nope that can’t be right, I believe facts do change minds
Social scientist: exactly đź‘€
Social science: research shows facts alone don’t change people’s minds
Scientists in audience: nope that can’t be right, I believe facts do change minds
Social scientist: exactly đź‘€
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Dr. Catherine Macdonald
It feels wrong to many scientists, intuitively, that teaching people facts won’t necessarily change their attitudes or behavior. So we can’t even make scientists believe the “knowledge gap” approach doesn’t work, because they reject scientific fact (it doesn’t work) in favor of belief (it does).
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The internet disproved that, and rather quickly.