Cameron Santoro

Blog Post#3

11/6/13

The Problem with New Data

The current state of affairs is an absolute mess in this country. When it comes to opinions and facts if people are on one side of an argument their position will not change for anything, according to John Carrol. If you take this for face value one might conclude that everyone in politics or science is just trying to get their agenda across to the average person, but it is really more complicated than that. In reality trying to change one’s opinion can cause you to be shunned by your affiliates and the people on your side. This is very important in the political world because you need the one hundred and ten percent support of your party or you will not be elected to office.

Things don’t fair much better outside of politics either. The Unions want to raise middle wage one or two dollars so people who work at McDonalds can support a family, but they will ignore and insult people who say that McDonalds was never meant to be a job to support a family on, but a job teenagers take to learn how to work and to get the money to buy a Playstation 4. Many people will often wonder why certain groups could be so stubborn but the answer is in our human nature. Humans never want to be wrong. Whether it’s because of embarrassment or anger at people who prove us wrong we don’t like being told what we believe is wrong and that we need to update or change our opinions.