Boston Globe – How facts backfire: Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains
By Joe Keohane | July 11, 2010
“…Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds….”
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/
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