每日科技报告 第95期 We Only Trust Experts Who Agree With Us

张立涛

We Only Trust Experts If They Agree With Us

We only consider scientists to be experts when their argument is in line with our own previously held beliefs.

We think we trust experts.   But a new study finds that what really influences our opinions, more than listening to any expert, is our own beliefs.

  

Researchers told study subjects about a scientific expert who accepted climate change as real. Subjects who thought that commerce can be environmentally damaging were ready to accept the scientist as an expert. But those who came into the study believing that economic activity could not hurt the environment were 70 percent less likely to accept that the scientist really was an expert.

  

Then the researchers flipped the situation. They told different subjects that the same hypothetical scientist, with the same accreditation, was skeptical of climate change. Now those who thought that economic activity cannot harm the environment accepted the expert, and the other group was 50 percent less likely to believe in his expertise. The study was published in the Journal of Risk Research.

The investigators found similar results for various other issues, from nuclear waste disposal to gun control.   Said one of the authors, “People tend to keep a biased score of what experts believe, counting a scientist as an 'expert' only when that scientist agrees with the position they find culturally congenial."

马文旭

这是什么东东呀~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

阳台7777

第一眼把楼主名字看错了···

张立涛

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哥们看成啥了？
   

杜增

I trust myself most!

yellowaug

都是些深奥的东西

小草远在天涯

偏偏我英语不行，勉勉强强看懂一点。。。挺好的

辛逸

力涛在哪弄的啊

辛逸

问你话你又不回答，说不定咱们还是一个学校的

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