10-27-2016, 02:10 PM
(10-27-2016, 12:39 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: It's not the schools. Schools teach this.
I posted a thread about this a week or so ago. It's not that they can't differentiate between the two, it's just that they are so sure they are correct that they do not realize they are wrong. People have the tendency to find sources to collaborate their "facts" and to not believe those who state otherwise.
Studies have shown the more you disprove someone's strongly held belief they will reject it further in the face of facts stating otherwise. Take the guy from hard knocks this last season, William Hayes. He does not believe Dinosaurs are real, but he does believe mermaids are real. He was taken to a museum where they had actual skeletons and he actually asked the question "if we never saw them how do we know how to put them back together?". At the end of his tour the lady asked if he believed they were real now, he replied no he actually believes now more so they weren't real.
Basically people form opinions on things and don't change their minds.
