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Why So Many People Believe In Conspiracy Theories!
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A group of drunks propping each other up will still topple when enough of them pass out. Science has finally cracked the mystery of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories
Jan 26, 2023 on BusinessInsider.com
By Adam Rogers
It turns out conspiracy believers may not be stupid, isolated, nor insane, but merely smug, lazy, or overconfident.
A quote from the article:
"...according to new research, it isn't ignorance that makes people most likely to buy into conspiratorial thinking, or social isolation or mental illness. It's a far more prevalent and pesky personality quirk: overconfidence.
"The more you think you're right all the time, a new study suggests, the more likely you are to buy conspiracy theories, regardless of the evidence. That'd be bad enough if it applied only to that one know-it-all cousin you see every Thanksgiving. But given how both politics and business reward a faith in one's own genius, the news is way worse. Some of the same people this hypothesis predicts will be most prone to conspiracy thinking also have the biggest megaphones — like an ex-president who believes he's never wrong, and a CEO who thinks that building expensive cars makes him some sort of visionary. It'd be better, or at least more reassuring, if conspiracy theories were fueled by dumb yahoos rather than self-centered monsters. Because arrogance, as history has repeatedly demonstrated, is a lot harder to stamp out than stupidity."
LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/why.....fidence-2023-1
Jan 26, 2023 on BusinessInsider.com
By Adam Rogers
It turns out conspiracy believers may not be stupid, isolated, nor insane, but merely smug, lazy, or overconfident.
A quote from the article:
"...according to new research, it isn't ignorance that makes people most likely to buy into conspiratorial thinking, or social isolation or mental illness. It's a far more prevalent and pesky personality quirk: overconfidence.
"The more you think you're right all the time, a new study suggests, the more likely you are to buy conspiracy theories, regardless of the evidence. That'd be bad enough if it applied only to that one know-it-all cousin you see every Thanksgiving. But given how both politics and business reward a faith in one's own genius, the news is way worse. Some of the same people this hypothesis predicts will be most prone to conspiracy thinking also have the biggest megaphones — like an ex-president who believes he's never wrong, and a CEO who thinks that building expensive cars makes him some sort of visionary. It'd be better, or at least more reassuring, if conspiracy theories were fueled by dumb yahoos rather than self-centered monsters. Because arrogance, as history has repeatedly demonstrated, is a lot harder to stamp out than stupidity."
LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/why.....fidence-2023-1
Admiral : What do you know of conspiracies, Captain?
Picard: Not nearly enough, I suppose.
Admiral: That's the charming thing about them, isn't it? When a machination is real, no one knows about it. And when it's suspected, it's almost never real.
"He who has a secret, must keep it secret that he has a secret to keep..."
Imagine that one feels that their constant regurgitation of opinion is somehow a replacement for an actual personality.