The Homeostatic Fallacy and Misinformation Literacy

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Homeostatic Fallacy and Misinformation Literacy
Michael Caulfield, Hapgood, 2018/12/24
This is a few days old but I want to make sure this item does not get lost in the shuffle. The idea here is that people have a natural 'set point' that they drift back to - new information, for example, is not likely to change one's core beliefs, which is (partially) why you cannot simply appeal to reason and evidence to (say) persuade a person to quit smoking. More...