Facts don't work. It's dismissed as partisanship in an anti-expert world. Empathy doesn't work. It's seen as identity politics & whining.
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This is how witch hunts begin. And I'm pretty convinced that I'm going to be a witch for this one.
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My generation, right, we were told to go to college. work hard, get a job, work our way up. So we did, and suddenly expertise is irrelevant.
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I do hope that you have not become so jaded that you believe this for a second. I can not give up and better still will not
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It's an observation on the trump crew
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I truly believe expertise will win out it just may take longer than anyone expected.
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maybe the very long game, but history in terms of decades and centuries is not on side with that belief.
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As an engineer/researcher I have to hold that belief or all is lost anyway. I have hope for reason to prevail
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I have been going round and round and round with this problem and have no good solutions
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especially because if any of the media these folks trust start advocating for evidence-based reasoning, they'll be abandoned
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are some people only accepting of "a strong leader", who tells them what to do and think? :-/
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You can't fix when those believing refuse to use their own critical thinking skills. This is a huge problem at all levels
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You don't. It's an enormous waste of effort for 2-3% of the adult population. Focus on not losing the sane.
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@crampell I havrn't read it yet, but this article seems to be trying to do that? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-convince-someone-when-facts-fail/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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those voters don't actually "believe" said claim. It's more simple - they simply support stories that hurt the 'other side'
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