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Pretty much. I can pitch documents after document and it still comes back to "well thats nice but i'll believe me".


This is anecdotal fallacy. I observed people changing their opinions here, at HN.


This is not the sort of topic where that happens. Everybody is aware that if you spin the data this way or that on these sort of topics (broadly - social science with strong preformed views that tends to directly apply to oneself) that you can prove whatever you want, and all a plurality one way or the other demonstrates is the trending bias among those publishing in such a field.

When people do change their minds on such topics it tends to be from lived wisdom rather than learned knowledge. Or starting to see such things through the perspective of your children, rather than yourself.




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