Inconvenient Truths

[TemplarKormac]

So, what do you do when you encounter facts and information that are inconvenient for you? Do you ignore them or do you let them guide you?

Post your answers below!

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

If by inconvenient you mean something I don't believe, I look them up and if I find legitimate sources supporting that view I'll change my mind.

 

[X.Onasis]

So, what do you do when you encounter facts and information that are inconvenient for you? Do you ignore them or do you let them guide you?

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Lately, people are questioning Leon Festinger's theory... Even calling cognitive dissonance a debunked psychological theory.

Personally, I'm not so sure. I think he was spot on.

“A man with a conviction is a hard man to change,” Festinger wrote. “Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.” Cognitive dissonance helped explain human choices that otherwise seemed irrational, stubborn, and shortsighted: these were, in fact, attempts to reduce psychological distress.

Or as it is said by wise women, "A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still."

 

[BackAgain]

My answer for what I do is very different from what many of our shitlib fellow Board members would claim about me.

If I get information alien to what I had believed (or thought that I “knew”), I scrutinize it. I have some time to do some digging. And I like to dig down to some original sources when I can.

If, after doing so, I find that some of my prior thinking has been caused by factual inaccuracies, then I try to see whether the opposing side’s conclusions make sense.

Sometimes that happens. Sometimes, both such views turn out to be “wrong,” in one or more ways.

 

[Chuz Life]

So, what do you do when you encounter facts and information that are inconvenient for you? Do you ignore them or do you let them guide you?

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I'm a realist.

I only go where the facts tell me to go.

 

[toobfreak]

So, what do you do when you encounter facts and information that are inconvenient for you? Do you ignore them or do you let them guide you?

I'm not sure I've ever encountered a fact that was inconvenient for me. In science, it is normal and common to encounter facts which don't jive with your expectations. Since facts are facts, you have only two choices, alter your expectations and go wherever truth takes you, or do what is common in progressive politics and alter your paradigm to change the facts to fit your model.

 

[luiza]

Cognitive Rigidity provides perceived Comfort and Security .

Unsurpisingly these are matters that Stupid Sheeple crave as much as Food and Drink .

No wonder Democracy is a bad joke .

 

[ChristisKing]

So, what do you do when you encounter facts and information that are inconvenient for you? Do you ignore them or do you let them guide you?

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What do you mean by inconvenient?

 

[JOSweetHeart]

For me, it depends on what the inconvenient truths concern. Some things can be shrugged off, but not everything can be dismissed.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[TemplarKormac]

What do you mean by inconvenient?

Any facts which are true but which conflicts with your held beliefs. That could be anything you believe.

 

[Bitterhook]

So, what do you do when you encounter facts and information that are inconvenient for you? Do you ignore them or do you let them guide you?

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The key to critical thinking is to constantly challenge your own ideas with the assumption that you could be wrong, and therefore, if you are any good at that then there is no such thing as an 'inconvenient truth' and just the truth you intentionally set out to find.

 

[ChristisKing]

Any facts which are true but which conflicts with your held beliefs. That could be anything you believe.

Oh well then no actually. I always like a good challenge.