Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Blog Entry 5

"I Know the Truth"

According with Jeffrey Kluger in the passage "I know the Truth, So don't Bother Me with Facts”, He explains how people can be easily convinced and persuaded by false information, beliefs or lies, including demonstrations of facts prove with a research of the Ohio State University; and also a latest study by assistant professors of communication from the same University R. Kelly Garret and Erik Nisbet, recruited 750 people who believing at least one of the rumors about the proposed Islamic cultural center, just a third of people were willing to reverse their positions, regardless of the contradictory evidence they were given.

Some of there are also predictions and imaginations made ​​as those of the writer Jules Verne novels Twenty Thousand on historical Leagues Under the Sea, where he describes a man who could dive so deep in the sea With A special suit and at that time nobody thought and today it's a fact.


Came up with two conclusions the first one that it is easy to manipulated people’s belief systems with insinuating pictures or inflammatory quotes, and the second one even in the best of circumstances, fewer than a third of people were willing to reverse their positions, regardless of the contradictory evidence they were given. Some people are so attached to their beliefs even if they have been proved with data and facts that is not the truth and are wrong. But sometimes because their ego or beliefs they don’t accept that. Some parts of the brain researchers studied to discover the basis of the reason for this.

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