[watwut]

Personally, I am glad that culture is moving away from rewarding confident certain statements that are simply untrue.

[LeonB]

Citation needed.

Also - relevance?

The tagline being questioned here is—

“People don't change their minds”

— the problem with which is not that it’s “simply untrue” but that it requires qualification, e.g. in the prose of the linked article it’s written:

“To a good first approximation, people simply don't change their minds about anything that matters”

[watwut]

> Citation needed.

Citation for personal preference? Or for claim that currently confidence is rewarded more then accuracy?

> the problem with which is not that it’s “simply untrue” but that

The statement is untrue, because people do change minds. People change minds also about stuff that matters. They dont do it often, but they do it.

[xapata]

> is moving away

I think the citation would be for "is moving away" as that's the most bold claim.

[watwut]

That was the premise of the comment I reacted to. It says: I’m starting to see more and more people demand quantifiers or conditional disqualifiers on statements that shouldn’t reasonably be considered as absolutes.

Seeing more and more people demand such qualifiers is culture moving away.