Saturday, May 16, 2015

Changing People's Minds


This This American Life podcast is very interesting, especially the first story. Just shows, once again, how important a positive example is, and how screaming and anger won't change people's minds.

UPDATE: Turns out the data was faked for this. Yikes!
Thanks to Brendon Brewer for noting this.

2 comments:

Brendon J. Brewer said...

Some interesting developments on this story:

http://www.statschat.org.nz/2015/05/21/fake-data-in-important-political-science-experiment/

Joseph T. Espinosa said...

Excellent, I can go back to yelling people into veganism ;-)