Are Smart People Ruining Democracy? | Dan Kahan | TEDxVienna

[@witwisniewski2280]

The "high numeracy" subjects probably already had consumed many other studies on each controversial topic so they tended to reject the unintuitive results because most other sources contradicted that result. They were not necessarily biassed or making reasoning blunders, but were filtering out the deliberately false data presented to them in the experiment. The problem is that the political factions had already studied biassed data fed to them by their communities.

[@raymondlabelle387]

In the study here at issue, the subjects were presented data (not necessarily true), that should necessarily lead to a given conclusion if interpreted in a non-biased way. And it is those numbers and graphs only that they were asked to interpret.

[@NickKautz]

Once you see this phenomenon in yourself, you see it everywhere. It's fascinating and frustrating but ultimately deeply transformative and rewarding in the quest to remove it from oneself. There's identity deconstruction, humbling self-discovery, and more! Collect the whole set.

[@lancekraft4040]

Is there a television network dedicated to presenting false data on scientific subjects? Because if such a network existed, it would skew this data. The incredulity resulting from being exposed to a constant assault of misinformation on political subjects would be noteworthy. If such a network existed, and its reporting were widely disseminated throughout the internet as factual, then any consumer of new information would be rightly suspicious of the veracity of any "facts" concerning controversial, politically charged subjects.

[@jccp787]

It is funny that at minute 10:33 the presenter trows me off with his hipothesis because all I see is that the liberals were correct all along on the subjects of global warming and fracking. In other words, both groups moved in the same direction, but in the direction of the original liberal point of view.

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[@torguttormsyvertsen9088]

“Science, however, is never conducted as a popularity contest, but instead advances through testable, reproducible, and falsifiable theories.” ― Michio Kaku

[@matthewcerini699]

Given enough time, yes. Eventually we have to pay the piper, but in the short term, scientific careers and reputations are protected and those who challenge them are destroyed politically and economically and do not receive any vindication until their corpses have rotted away. It's just the way the game is played. A PHD makes you more responsible to the truth and to curiosity, not less. We still have a long way to go on this front.