Factual argument alone fails to change entrenched workplace decisions
Evidence
In the end, Sophie does exactly what she actually wanted to avoid and concentrates on preventing Mr. Fischer’s favorite. After a lengthy discussion, they agree on the young man from Sophie’s suggestions. She is happy to take the assumed risk that he might be a careerist and a phony. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 66
Categorization
- SEED: Article angle: why facts don’t win arguments — the Sophie loop of research, defeat, and self-justifying capitulation.
Related
- Having better arguments and better manners does not win disputes (similarity 0.80)
- Knowing the facts provides no strategy when opponents are immune to evidence (similarity 0.79)