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Facts don’t actually make people dig in.

For years it was said that corrections strengthen false beliefs (the “backfire effect”). Wood and Porter tested this in 2019 on more than 10,000 people across 52 political issues – and found practically no backfire. Corrections almost always moved opinions toward the facts, if only by a bit.

Useful: Go ahead and correct calmly: it rarely works miracles, but it doesn’t backfire.

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