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Does anyone ever change their mind?
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<blockquote data-quote="rambot" data-source="post: 75434490" data-attributes="member: 145797"><p>YES! Yes I do. I DO change my mind. When STRONG evidence and the opinions of experts shift, I change my mind with them.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, people on the internet ALWAYS think that they provide "strong evidence" and that they themselves are experts (or that the tiny handful of experts that they agree are more important that the multiple thousands of experts who disagree with them).</p><p></p><p>Being called "sheeple" doesn't help. When folks use labels and make BROAD catagorizations of people that doesn't help to convince anyone of anything.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I've seen people online get duped by really really terrible evidence. Or, and tihs is far more dangerous and nowadays more common evidence that, on the surface looks VERY convincing but in fact, is disingenuous, misleading, or at times false.</p><p></p><p>My nephew is a graduate student and a friend of mine on facebook posted the scientific studies that call mask usage into question. While the studies on the surface were not supportive of mask use, there was a lot more going on that made the study less convincing. I needed someone DEEP into scientific research and published report writing to be able to analyze what was being said.</p><p></p><p>And the last problem is that everything thinks they are as smart as a nuclear physicist, atmospheric scientist, FBI agent, or Constitutional Scholar. Nobody is willing to say "teach me something and help me learn". And the bigliest problem is that when those people just HAPPEN upon a forum such as this and we are lucky enough to have someone with that level of knowledge, nobody bothers to engage in learning and just try (pathetically) to try to "gotcha" them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rambot, post: 75434490, member: 145797"] YES! Yes I do. I DO change my mind. When STRONG evidence and the opinions of experts shift, I change my mind with them. Unfortunately, people on the internet ALWAYS think that they provide "strong evidence" and that they themselves are experts (or that the tiny handful of experts that they agree are more important that the multiple thousands of experts who disagree with them). Being called "sheeple" doesn't help. When folks use labels and make BROAD catagorizations of people that doesn't help to convince anyone of anything. I've seen people online get duped by really really terrible evidence. Or, and tihs is far more dangerous and nowadays more common evidence that, on the surface looks VERY convincing but in fact, is disingenuous, misleading, or at times false. My nephew is a graduate student and a friend of mine on facebook posted the scientific studies that call mask usage into question. While the studies on the surface were not supportive of mask use, there was a lot more going on that made the study less convincing. I needed someone DEEP into scientific research and published report writing to be able to analyze what was being said. And the last problem is that everything thinks they are as smart as a nuclear physicist, atmospheric scientist, FBI agent, or Constitutional Scholar. Nobody is willing to say "teach me something and help me learn". And the bigliest problem is that when those people just HAPPEN upon a forum such as this and we are lucky enough to have someone with that level of knowledge, nobody bothers to engage in learning and just try (pathetically) to try to "gotcha" them. [/QUOTE]
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