We know less than we believe!
We humans are extremely susceptible to believe untruths! We live in a post-truth era. This means that we have emotions and personal beliefs that override objective facts. We do not want to accept and believe objective facts. An example could be a general conviction, such as: "Many immigrants are criminals!" Such fears are common all over the world. But do you know what the facts are? The fact is that "most immigrants are not criminals". Immigrants are detained with a 44 percent less probability (Cato, 2017; Flagg, 2018, 2019). And that's just an example of many others.There are some psychological explanations...