psmag/navigation/health-and-behavior/confident-idiots-92793/ If two paragraphs of text are enough to send people on a glide path to polarization, simply giving members of the public more information probably won’t help them arrive at a shared, neutral understanding of the facts; it will just reinforce their biased views. ... Benjamin Franklin wrote that a learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. Even a course on a subject can have this effect!
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 19:22:22 +0000