YOU ONLY USE 10 percent of your brain. Eating carrots improves your eyesight. Vitamin C cures the common cold. Crime in the United States is at an all-time high. None of those things are true.
But the facts don’t actually matter: People repeat them so often that you believe them. Welcome to the “illusory truth effect,” a glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth. Marketers and politicians are masters of manipulating this particular cognitive bias—which perhaps you have become more familiar with lately. Full Article
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Nope… in most cases, saying something over and over again does NOT make it true. A fact is still a fact.
Fact: Internet extortionists are hurtful bullies.
So, is this just a way to “get political” on a non-political website? I saw no mention of sex offenders or sex offender statistics.
This article should be stricken from this non-political website.
If this article directly references sex offenders, then keep it. While there is a weak correlation to sex offenders, I think it more likely someone wanted to get political and siezed the opportunity.
Does saying that repeating something over and over again makes it true, over and over again make it true? I’ve heard this claim several times and I just don’t believe it a law of human nature. There is plenty of facts everywhere, spoken quite often, and people ignore them and believe what they want to believe — until the truth hurts. They tune out anything that doesn’t sound right and turn on what they want to hear. Once they have a friend or themselves get labeled a sex offender, suddenly frightening and high becomes unremarkable and almost never.
Obama was great.
Obama was great.
Obama was great.
Nope, repeating it doesn’t make it true
Great article, and very appropriate to us.
As a matter of fact, I wish everyone that can post comments on the source article should do so. It needs to be pointed out the Wired missed out on pointing out one of the biggest repeated falsehoods of the last century. That one about anyone committing a crime with any connection to something sexual (and sometimes not) is a future child molester and must be banished, homeless, and jobless for the rest of their lives.