RE: Christians what would change your mind?
August 10, 2020 at 3:20 pm
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2020 at 3:22 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
In one of my undergraduate classes we recreated an experiment from Elizabeth Loftus in which people saw videos of accidents and were subsequently asked to estimate each car's speed.
The variable that changed across participants was the word used to describe the accident. We asked how fast the cars were going when they "hit, "collided," "smashed," etc. The results were simple. People's estimates of the speed correlated with the intensity of the word.
To think you are not altering the accuracy of an idea by framing it with the least charitable words (e.g. magic) is to grossly misunderstand how the mind works.
The variable that changed across participants was the word used to describe the accident. We asked how fast the cars were going when they "hit, "collided," "smashed," etc. The results were simple. People's estimates of the speed correlated with the intensity of the word.
To think you are not altering the accuracy of an idea by framing it with the least charitable words (e.g. magic) is to grossly misunderstand how the mind works.
