12 Angry Men redux
Juror #10: Don’t give me that. I’m sick and tired of facts! You can twist ’em anyway you like, you know what I mean?
Juror #10: Six to six... I’m telling you, some of you people in here must be out of your minds.
Juror #10: [interrupting] You didn’t prove it at all. What’re you talking about?
What we we have here, folks, is an excellent example of what I like to call the Backfire Effect. Huh?, you ask. The Backfire Effect is a psychological phenomenon produced in the mind when one’s beliefs or long held ideas are challenged or contradicted. What frequently happens is that the more the person is challenged and the more evidence is presented the more tightly he holds on to his beliefs. The Backfire Effect is not exactly the same thing as stubbornness or refusal to admit defeat but is a little more subtle.
Rational wiki
“”What should be evident from the studies on the backfire effect is you can never win an argument online. When you start to pull out facts and figures, hyperlinks and quotes, you are actually making the opponent feel as though they are even more sure of their position than before you started the debate. As they match your fervor, the same thing happens in your skull. The backfire effect pushes both of you deeper into your original beliefs.”
That’s why you will never see a died in the wool naysayer say, “Well, folks, I finally tried such and such and it actually made quite a nice change to the sound. I admit I was wrong.” 😛 They’d rather fight than switch. It’s a scene right out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Juror #10: Don’t give me that. I’m sick and tired of facts! You can twist ’em anyway you like, you know what I mean?
Juror #10: Six to six... I’m telling you, some of you people in here must be out of your minds.
Juror #10: [interrupting] You didn’t prove it at all. What’re you talking about?
What we we have here, folks, is an excellent example of what I like to call the Backfire Effect. Huh?, you ask. The Backfire Effect is a psychological phenomenon produced in the mind when one’s beliefs or long held ideas are challenged or contradicted. What frequently happens is that the more the person is challenged and the more evidence is presented the more tightly he holds on to his beliefs. The Backfire Effect is not exactly the same thing as stubbornness or refusal to admit defeat but is a little more subtle.
Rational wiki
“”What should be evident from the studies on the backfire effect is you can never win an argument online. When you start to pull out facts and figures, hyperlinks and quotes, you are actually making the opponent feel as though they are even more sure of their position than before you started the debate. As they match your fervor, the same thing happens in your skull. The backfire effect pushes both of you deeper into your original beliefs.”
That’s why you will never see a died in the wool naysayer say, “Well, folks, I finally tried such and such and it actually made quite a nice change to the sound. I admit I was wrong.” 😛 They’d rather fight than switch. It’s a scene right out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.