Social proof is generally a worse mechanism for truth seeking than material proof, but humans are generally much better at working with it
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Loosely, where you judge the person's honesty/competence at individual and group level rather than the merits of their argument
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Psycho-social is being human. Say you made a rational case by email, if the other person does not respond, you wonder if you upset them
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I call this "MAGA" vs "Ask the fact checkers" paradox prolly more official term exists though.
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That's the reason science is such a specialized, relatively recent discipline. We're lucky we managed to discover scientific method at all.





