Illusory Truth Effect

I'm kind-of surprised this didn't get studied earlier. This was one of the pillars of Nazi propaganda - or indeed, come to think of it, presumably any propaganda. Relentlessly repeat your lies, and eventually people believe them.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 8:29 AM UTC

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Post by vezycash » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 9:12 AM UTC

s_gourichon wrote: post #4

Yeah, I've heard about it already, probably true. ;-) Does it take a twisted mind to apply that pattern to https://xkcd.com/552/ ?

>Does it take a twisted mind to apply that pattern

Not necessarily. They say the best liar is one who doesn't know that he's lying. Take the state of news today, we have bloggers who parrot a source with no verification and often zero comprehension of what they are reposting.

RMS's issue a few weeks ago exemplified this effect with probably no single twisted mastermind. An under age girl was forced to ask a billionaire pedo for sex who turned her down was shortened to. Billionaire pedo forced an underage girl for sex. The shortened sensationalized version motivated by advert money then spread like wildfire.

See the link below for how word of mouth stories become distorted with transmission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumor#1947_study

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Post by bananamerica » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 9:17 AM UTC

I have a friend who is a lawyer. He seems to believe that rhetoric and logic are the same thing. Links like this bring me bad memories.

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Post by known » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 9:38 AM UTC

"Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed" --Friedrich

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Post by mbel » Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 9:51 AM UTC

known wrote: post #9

"Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed" --Friedrich

'Sometimes' seems to be a major understatement.