VincentYu comments on Open thread, November 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VincentYu 03 November 2011 03:27:06AM * 2 points [-]

I'm not sure about the LW discussion post, but the phenomenon that you describe closely resembles Nyhan and Reifler's 'backfire effect', which I think reached a popular audience when David McRaney wrote about it on You Are Not So Smart.

ETA: Googling LW for "backfire effect" and nyhan doesn't turn up any recent post, so maybe this is not what you are looking for.

Comment author: dbaupp 03 November 2011 08:05:17AM * 1 point [-]

I'm not in a position to Google easily, but "belief polarization" is another term for this, I think.