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How long have you believed what you believe?
This is a question which I thought of, perhaps not as a follow up for Why do you believe what you believe? but as an update to the relevancy of time on it.
When someone is citing data to you, many times we all have phrases or certain figures for which we’ve memorized for years ever since we first heard them. The unfortunate part about this is that when it becomes automatic we often stop questioning the automation, moving forward on the assumption of the information.
Yet, in this modern world how quickly does information shift and change?
I think we ought to sort by relevancy over recency, but certainly recency has some play, particularly for figures than can change quickly.
Concrete: Citations about women earning less than men, Obama’s speech about the .75 to the 1$ and how men are making much less in their 20’s How women dominate college and education today