Blog # 8 "I Know the Truth..."

In the article "I Know the Truth, So Don’t Bother Me with facts" writing by Jeffrey Kluger, explains why people are easy to manipulate with rumors. I agree with the writer when it comes to this topic. To this I have some reason why I think people are easy to trick. First I believe that we as human beings don’t like to change our opinion when we believe in something. Second people are influence by their emotions, values and culture. And last I believe it’s the genetics of human which affects and govern the individual’s tendencies toward certain directions.

My first opinion about people not liking when they have to change their first thoughts about a topic, reflects on the people behaviors of self insurance. Meaning that human have this ego, that thinks we are always right all the time. Especially men ( I know you like this ) that’s we don’t like to do research or even ask questions on any topic. For example I don’t like to ask for directions when I’m lost, even when gets me into trouble. Cause of his ego that I have being that I know where things are. I can get trick easy and even manipulate by my own thoughts. A lot of people think this way as well. Going back on Jeffrey Kluger’s article in which he states that two professor from Ohio State University took 750 people to do a study about how people are easy trick by rumors. The study shows that 1/3 of the 750 change their opinion about what they heard at first. The professors R. Kelly Garret and Erik Nisbet find that most troubling, how people were not willing to reverse their position on a topic.

Second I believe that people are influence by their emotion, values and even culture, meaning that we are don’t really have an opinion on life. We let our emotions get the best of us. And the values that we carry from our family suggest that we are easy control by the way other people think or act. People are close minded and they usually like to follow the leader on life. They can think or express themselves. Going back about the emotion that its stopping them to realize that they can change their opinion when they like. For example I’m like that when I have a feeling about a topic and I see that other people are wrong about it, I usually don’t say anything and I go alone with the other people believe or I get away from it and keep my opinion to myself. Culture can be the same thing. It rules the way we think about things. And people let that interfere on their way of thinking or even opening their mind and changing their opinion about a topic.

Last I think it’s the human genetics that cause us to think the way we do. We get tendencies of thinking without really thinking about it. Like a saying “think before you do something” that’s a good way of putting it. We as human don’t do that at all most of the time. And that’s how we as a society are easy manipulate. In conclusion I do agree with Jeffrey Kluger”s opinion on his article, I think we as a human being should take our time and don’t jump into things before really thinking about it.