Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
💬QUOTE I 💖: "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." -Anonymous #inspirationalquotes #quotes
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
💬QUOTE I 💖: "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." -William Shakespeare (Feste, Twelfth Night) #inspirationalquotes #quotes
Always vote for principal, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
💬QUOTE I 💖: "Always vote for principal, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." -John Quincy Adams #inspirationalquotes #quotes
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
💬QUOTE I 💖: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." -Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein) #creativity #quotes
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
💬QUOTE I 💖: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." -Henry Adams #education #quotes
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
💬QUOTE I 💖: "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." -George R.R. Martin #creativity #quotes
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Partisanship (polarization) = Party cues become heuristics for truth, overpowering cross-cutting evidence. #facts #didyouknow #Knowledge4Policy
A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
💬QUOTE I 💖: "A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes #education #quotes
A house without books is like a room without windows
💬QUOTE I 💖: "A house without books is like a room without windows" -Horace Mann #love #quotes
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
💬QUOTE I 💖: "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." -Hugh Downs #happiness #quotes
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Othering = Casting sources as “not us” licenses discounting their evidence. #logic #psychology #PhDchat
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Plan continuation bias = People stick with the current course despite signals to revise. #ScholarSunday #Metacognition
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Social proof = High visibility (likes, shares, endorsements) acts as a shortcut for credibility. #knowledgeispower #learn #research
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Negativity bias = Negative information weighs more, crowding out balanced assessments. #didyouknowfacts #generalknowledge
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Social identity = Group memberships provide norms and truths that govern which evidence is credible. #knowledge #funfacts #sciencefacts
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Paradigm = Dominant models frame which findings are noticed, funded, or dismissed as anomalies. #ResearchComm #KnowledgeDiss
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Backfire effect = Threatening corrections can harden prior beliefs rather than loosen them. #MindChange #education #DataComm
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Belonging = Signals of “people like me” prime acceptance of in-group-aligned claims and suspicion of outsider evidence. #psych #logical #politics #Data #science
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: System justification = People defend existing systems and discount data showing systemic problems. #Science4Policy #learning #Polarization
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Information avoidance = People steer clear of accurate facts that could force uncomfortable change. #AcWri #HigherED #SciComm #educational
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Dilution effect = Irrelevant details weaken the impact of strong diagnostic evidence. #AcademicTwitter #EdResearch #information
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Illusory truth effect = Repetition increases perceived truth regardless of evidential support. #AcademicLife #EdData #PhDchat
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Confirmation bias = We preferentially seek, trust, and remember evidence that supports what we already believe. #AcademicChatter #EdChat
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Stereotypes = Group generalizations skew assessments of sources and findings. #logic #psychology #PhDchat
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Change aversion = Because change feels risky, new data prompting change face extra resistance. #ScholarSunday #Metacognition
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Status quo bias = Current arrangements feel safer, so evidence for change faces a higher bar. #knowledgeispower #learn #research
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Outcome bias = Judging decisions by results rather than the evidence available at the time distorts learning. #didyouknowfacts #generalknowledge
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Hostile media effect = People view neutral coverage as biased against their side, lowering trust in shared facts. #knowledge #funfacts #sciencefacts
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Overconfidence bias = Certainty outstrips knowledge, reducing openness to new information. #facts #didyouknow #Knowledge4Policy
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact
#ThisCanMakePeopleRejectFact: Salience (top of mind) = What’s prominent gets overweighted in judgments relative to less salient but stronger evidence. #psych #logical #politics #Data #science
