Being Ignominious Will Only Backfire

Almost everyone has done fraudulent things, but the result is counterproductive. This is usually to avoid adverse events and what happens in the long run. Roxy is a beautiful 16 point black slave who exchanged her baby Chambers with her owner Baby Tom who tried the same on Pudd'nhead Wilson. The baby was the same, was born on the same day, the only difference is that chambers are considered blacks. Roxy completed her plan to avoid selling her son.

In SXSW Edu, technical social researcher Danah Boyd pointed out this year, attempts to improve school media literacy tend to be counterproductive. Checking the credibility of articles in Fox News in classes may be regarded as an "elite" attack on their values ​​by working classes and evangelical youth. Mr. Boyd believes that by educating young people to understand the information field without increasing distrust, "I think that the media is lying if young people are encouraged to criticize the press" I am concerned that it is very difficult

This impairs the concept of standard, that is, the way that persuading people is through evidence and discussion. In fact, aggressive persuasive attempts sometimes have opposite effects, people not only change their minds when they face facts, they may be more stubbornly stubborn than ever. For example, before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein had problems with hidden weapons of weapons of mass destruction. Political scientists Brandon Nihan and Jason Reveler announced the first fake newspaper article (PDF) (in the text of President Bush in 2004) and subsequently argued (according to Bush's consigned Iraq research team) a survey of the report In the results, there was no evidence that the development plan of weapons of mass destruction was implemented in Iraq before invasion.

Shermer explained that the counterproductive effect is a strange idea that when correcting it actually makes some people feel more correctly with the first wrong belief. For example, even after the Bush administration began to run rumors, many people believe that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction. Even scientists are committing this mistake. In some cases, higher intelligence leads to wrong thinking. Recent studies have shown that people with high cognitive abilities are good at pattern recognition and therefore are more likely to be stereotyped. In the Science Daily report, the authors of the study point out that "stereotypes are a generalization on the characteristics of social groups applied to individual members of these groups". "To do such a generalization, you must first examine the patterns of members of a particular group and then classify individuals as belonging to that group.