Comments on: Why people believe stuff /2010/opinion/why-people-believe-stuff/ Colin Jacobs in, on and about the Internet Wed, 01 Oct 2014 12:03:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 By: Korny /2010/opinion/why-people-believe-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:42:34 +0000 /?p=223#comment-93 Nope. I don’t believe you. 🙂
Actually, I think you missed a big one:
8) Because to believe otherwise would require changing their behaviour in a non-trival way

This is especially true when the change would cost money, or in other ways threaten their “security”.

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