Imagine you would see a fact that contradict your deepest believes, the core of who you are. This fact is uncontestable, is evidence in its purest form, is something that happened and you know with 100% certainty that it happened. But this fact also is against what define you as a person, your most profound thoughts. Either political, religious , philosophical or moral believes, whatever sits deepetin you.
Do you think this evidence would make you change your mind, or not?
Sometimes.
So I work hard to not be.
To the rest of the question, we all struggle with data that conflicts with our paradigm, what we think we know.
It’s not easy to try to integrate new information that conflicts with strongly founded views.