Accurate Perception of Repetitive Information: Misleading Reality

“Carrot your vision will improve if you eat” or “Spinach you will be strongerWe’ve all heard phrases like ” The vast majority of ideas such as these are firstly found in newspapers and television, and then transferred to social media. practical knowledge corners, advertisements and cartoons entered our lives through different channels such as

Since the day they entered, very few people have questioned their veracity and learned the original. The rest are “After all, everybody knows that guess it’s an expert opinionHe preferred not to go into his thoughts and go over the wrong or incomplete information in question. Misleading reality effect Let’s look at this situation we know as.

The effect in question was first put forward in a study conducted in 1977:

Let’s explain briefly: In this study, certain questions were given to a group of students one by one, and then they were asked from their answers. how sure they were asked. This situation 3 sessions was repeated. At the end of the first test, quite normal, even below expectations, answers were received, while this state of confidence gradually increased between sessions. seen to increase.

In the questions, from the location of the first space base to the date when basketball is counted as one of the Olympic sports, away from students There were expressions that were thought to be Those statements of repeated mistakes as a result more believable concluded that it did.

Finally, in the group where the questions were asked different from each other Let’s say that there are people who have different ways of thinking. This is the most able to think critically It means that even a person can be affected by this situation.

We see this especially in the world of politics and advertising:

primarily on social media propagandacan lead to escalation in world politics. Both an item and an item on channels such as Twitter. as it is shared disseminating false, propaganda, or incomplete information as it becomes even more popular easy daily users are faced with the danger of swimming in information pollution.

As such, they mostly accept false information as it is, and it becomes a little harder to show the truth. Sometimes around the world even the politicians this cycle of misinformation that you started we’re seeing. We see the same situation in advertisements shown on television.

For instance Apple’s Watch modelIn commercials, it often appears on the wrist of someone who does swimming, and naturally everyone waterproof thinks it is. Therefore “deterioration even if professional athlete uses it no risk“The thought of does not guarantee knows.

So why are people affected by this method that even Hitler used?

Obviously, there are varying reasons for this. Roughly not cognitive when searching behind knowledge intuitively moving forward means that a part (could be a word) we have encountered before is the knowledge we hear now. close come and the environment has built on you. oppression can cause this.

For example, before the right thing Unfortunately, even information you know can become credible when repeated in a distorted form. He is a knowledge part of We can individually consider this intimacy situation that arises when it is presented to you.

When we expand the situation to the masses, we also see the effect of environmental pressure. While you sit at home and look at history “How can a human just skin color persecutes another community because of it?You may have thought and tried to make sense of it. A lot of cover has been made for this. Some are black sinner she said they have dark skin because she has a even than human did not count.

And not 100 or 1000 people to this thought, millions have joined. “women cannot work” to false war news, in a very wide area. illusory reality effect we can observe.

So how do we avoid this situation?

We turn to media organizations and certain people to get information, and then we accept what we see there. That’s kind of what’s been said. take as is countable. You need to confirm the accuracy of the information by consulting multiple channels instead of a single channel you trust. The different types of information we talk about in this content ways to verify You can apply.

From time to time in the media channels we mentioned editorial errors can happen. For this reason, we need to ensure that we receive information from these channels, which we are deemed to be dependent on. Because, unfortunately, we know whether we are in the illusory reality effect. we don’t know. In this case, if you want to be able to think objectively on your own critical thinking methods it will be very useful for you.

Does messing with the phone while charging really reduces the life of the battery? Or does taking 10 thousand steps a day prolong a person’s life? Or is bitter food really beneficial for health?

The stock answers you can give to these are already in your mind. Most people when asked,If I mess with the phone while it is charging, the battery ends fast” or “spicy food heals fast” will be answered. But when it comes to the background of these sentences, few people argument to defend will have.

While everyone is thinking in this direction, investigating the details will help most people. it doesn’t matter much. At this point, what you have to do as an individual is of course, to try to learn everything, to put your work aside and scientific articles not to suffocate. To sharpen your abilities such as reasoning, analysis and evaluation critical thinking It will suffice to research the ways.

As a result, do a lot of research.

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