I have worked for years in the education community, and I have maintained the same approach in social and political life.<\/p>\n
I share with you my views, which I have enriched in practice by receiving pedagogical training, and which I have always sought the truth, with a scientific approach.
\nIn general, truth-seekers outperform the ideologically rigidly biased (ideologues) in many areas. But this superiority is not absolute in all cases; it depends on the context, the time scale and what you define as \u201cperformance\u201d.<\/p>\n
1. Actively Open-Minded Thinking: (AOT) - being open to new evidence, taking contradictory evidence seriously, questioning one's own side's arguments - significantly improves forecast accuracy, quality of information gathering and calibration.<\/p>\n
Ideological bias, on the contrary, reinforces myside bias (favoring one's own side).<\/p>\n
2. The advantage of not being detached from reality: The truth-seeker's experiences are \u201cnoisy but relatively free of bias\u201d.
\nIf the ideologue's experience is \u201clow-noise but systematically biased\u201d, it feels coherent in the short term but increasingly diverges from reality.<\/p>\n
In the long term, truth-seeker gains in learning and adaptation.<\/p>\n
3. The motivated reasoning trap: Ideological people with high cognitive capacity use their intelligence to \u201crationalize their positions\u201d instead of finding the truth (smart idiot syndrome).<\/p>\n
So high IQ + high ideological commitment can sometimes be the worst combination.<\/p>\n
- In the game of social influence and persuasion, strategic lying\/disciplined ideological posturing sometimes trumps honest truth-seeking (vote-gathering, group consensus building, going viral).<\/p>\n
- \u201cSeeking the truth\u201d in a highly polarized environment comes at a social cost; the ideologue can gain more allies and higher status in the short term.<\/p>\n
- In some narrow areas (e.g. the internal discipline of a particular ideological movement) rigid ideology can achieve organizational superiority.<\/p>\n
Consequently, in terms of long-term individual and societal performance (accurate prediction, adaptation, problem solving, learning speed)
\n\u201ctruth-seeking is by far superior\u201d<\/p>\n
In short-term social games (power, status, in-group persuasion), ideological commitment is often more advantageous.<\/p>\n
This is why many people consciously or unconsciously choose the strategy of \u201cbeing on the winning side\u201d instead of \u201cseeking the truth\u201d.<\/p>\n
The cost of this choice is usually realized after a few years.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00c7ok kutupla\u015fm\u0131\u015f bir ortamda “ger\u00e7e\u011fi aramak” sosyal maliyet getiriyor; ideolog k\u0131sa vadede daha \u00e7ok m\u00fcttefik, daha y\u00fcksek stat\u00fc elde edebiliyor.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":283680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-283679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-manset"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283681,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283679\/revisions\/283681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}