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There are physics students. There's astrophysics students, and they're arriving at
the same conclusions. How is it that they could
possibly all be wrong? And my response to that was
that they are putting things into a perspective
that they've been taught. Nobody wants to admit that
they've been fooled, but the reality is it's
happened to every one of us. PER:
Confirmation bias
is one of the most solid empirical findings
in psychology. If I have a belief
or an attitude, I will search for instances
that confirm what I believe
the same conclusions. How is it that they could
possibly all be wrong? And my response to that was
that they are putting things into a perspective
that they've been taught. Nobody wants to admit that
they've been fooled, but the reality is it's
happened to every one of us. PER:
Confirmation bias
is one of the most solid empirical findings
in psychology. If I have a belief
or an attitude, I will search for instances
that confirm what I believe
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There are physics students.
00:00:02.568 --> 00:00:03.934
There's astrophysics students,
00:00:03.969 --> 00:00:06.027
and they're arriving at
the same conclusions.
00:00:06.305 --> 00:00:08.505
How is it that they could
possibly all be wrong?
00:00:08.054 --> 00:00:11.842
And my response to that was
that they are putting things
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into a perspective
that they've been taught.
00:00:13.979 --> 00:00:16.347
Nobody wants to admit that
they've been fooled,
00:00:16.382 --> 00:00:19.316
but the reality is it's
happened to every one of us.
00:00:19.351 --> 00:00:21.352
PER:
Confirmation bias
is one of the most
00:00:21.387 --> 00:00:24.655
solid empirical findings
in psychology.
00:00:24.069 --> 00:00:26.049
If I have a belief
or an attitude,
00:00:26.525 --> 00:00:30.294
I will search for instances
that confirm what I believe.
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Movie Summary
Meet real Flat Earthers, a small but growing contingent of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is flat.