Eli5: Why is it easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled?
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Confirmation bias. It’s easy to make people believe stuff they kind of already thought. Case in point: vaccine safety. It’s scary to have someone inject something into your body, and it’s not unreasonable to consider it to be potentially dangerous. With that in mind, it’s very easy to convince a lot of people that they are dangerous by just making things up…their suspicions are confirmed, they feel smart for have correctly suspected something,
Eli5: Why is it easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled?
In: 634
Confirmation bias. It’s easy to make people believe stuff they kind of already thought. Case in point: vaccine safety. It’s scary to have someone inject something into your body, and it’s not unreasonable to consider it to be potentially dangerous. With that in mind, it’s very easy to convince a lot of people that they are dangerous by just making things up…their suspicions are confirmed, they feel smart for have correctly suspected something,
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