Every now and then I see the mental blocks some people put up unconsciously, when they've preemptively decided they're going to disagree with new data.
Today someone mentally blocked out every identifying marker in a video I'd shared with them, so they could claim they didn't know who was in the interview.
But there was no *conscious* intent to their actions. Some deeper part blocked them from being able to recognize the interviewee clearly labelled all throughout.
Fascinating and disturbing.
@MLClark Were they able to accept the information once you pointed out who it was?
Not really. I'm still waiting on their next reply, after I reflected on the way I'd set up the link with key info as well, and asked for their feedback on how I'd contextualized the video / could write more clearly for them next time.
But when I went back to the video the info was also right there in the title, a MASSIVE explainer sat in the video information, and the video had plenty of mentions itself. So they must have gone in with a HUGE chip to ignore every surface detail.
Please don't put that to the test, even for science. 😬
@MLClark That is amazing. I have misread sentences before, but I wonder how traumatized or brainwashed I would have to be to miss something like that.