[Lendal]

The article doesn't say facts never change minds. Clearly, facts do change minds. Just not always. The article simply focuses on the latter case, because that's a more interesting thing to read about.

It's like boring headlines don't get voted up in Hacker News. It has to be something interesting. Facts change peoples' minds. Facts don't change people's minds. Both are true. But only one is interesting.

[aeternum]

It also makes sense for humans to have some amount of hysteresis. Evidence or 'facts' can be misleading, data can be cherry-picked. It takes some time to sort it out.

I do think too many people get blinded by that hysteresis and the want to be 'right'.

[gmadsen]

its not that its just boring, but it doesn't provide any insight. We all have experienced changing our minds due to facts , there is nothing to write about that statement. What is interesting is that despite thinking that we are very logical with what we believe, study after study show that to be not the case on average. Confirmation bias is pervasive