Watch this short video:
Notice how the knowledge of the illusion does nothing to remove it. By the same token with ear and listener testing, awareness of bias or "experience" with one's system cannot undo false conclusions.
In one of the TED talk I recall hearing how positive of a species we are. We tend to want to believe more than disbelieve. It is a survival instinct I think to keep us going crazy, thinking of all the things that can go wrong. That factor I think is at play here where we want to believe so badly that we ignore logic and direct evidence of the observation being false.
Notice how the knowledge of the illusion does nothing to remove it. By the same token with ear and listener testing, awareness of bias or "experience" with one's system cannot undo false conclusions.
In one of the TED talk I recall hearing how positive of a species we are. We tend to want to believe more than disbelieve. It is a survival instinct I think to keep us going crazy, thinking of all the things that can go wrong. That factor I think is at play here where we want to believe so badly that we ignore logic and direct evidence of the observation being false.
