Lucy’s Reviews > Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong > Status Update

“We are particularly sensitive to consensus information about empirical matters because we construe consensus as a proxy for truth. The more widespread a belief is perceived to be, the more we are inclined to hold that belief ourselves.”

“And we quibble over whether a glass is half empty or half full when, in reality, it’s full all the way—one part with liquid and one part with gas.”