{"id":565,"date":"2006-03-18T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/03\/18\/what-do-you-fear-to-be-wrong-about-most\/"},"modified":"2006-03-18T08:08:57","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T15:08:57","slug":"what-do-you-fear-to-be-wrong-about-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/03\/18\/what-do-you-fear-to-be-wrong-about-most\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you fear to be wrong about most?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading a post over at apophenia<\/a> a couple of days ago where she posted on the thought provoking idea of “what do you fear to be wrong about most?”<\/p>\n

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Late one night at Etech, Matt Webb asked a bunch of us what we would be most afraid to be wrong about. In other words, what are we most invested in and would have our realities shattered if we were wrong. This question blew me away and got me thinking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Many of the comment threads here on “Our Thoughts” continually rehash the same ideas over and over and as far as I can tell a lot of the beliefs held here aren’t really based on anything more solid than feelings. (Don’t get me wrong, if that floats your boat then I wish you the happiest of sailing). However I wonder if having such a rigid viewpoint of the world might set some up for great disillusionment.<\/p>\n

My real point is, though, considering which of your beliefs you are most invested in, how would you react to hypothetical but 100% concrete evidence that your beliefs were wrong. I would hope that everyone would say, “ok, while this may be life changing news, I suppose I have no choice but to change my beliefs. I think I can do it.” Would you change your beliefs if you had 100% correct scientific information that they were wrong?<\/p>\n

What if the hypothetical evidence was 99.9% probable in its accuracy leaving only a .1% chance that your beliefs are correct, what would you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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