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Is it just pure stubbornness or something more psychological? Sometimes, no matter how much proof you show a person, they will still not believe obvious facts.
"This was essentially a modern day genocide in the United States."
It can be hard to go home for the holidays because if there's one time big family bust ups are brewing it's around the 25th December.
Today’s increasingly polarized debate around events like this year’s French presidential elections is in part driven by the influence of social networks. In his research, Frank Valencia, a member of the Inria Comete team at LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, applies formal methods to economics and social science models, using mathematics to analyze – and potentially modify - belief formation, consensus, and polarization online.
It always amazes me that people tend to take a position and never budge from it, regardless of the information and data with which they are presented.