High dogmatism predicts refusal to change belief regardless of evidence’s direction.

Evidence

To summarize this experiment, High DOG students on both sides of the issue typically said they would not be moved by strong evidence against their beliefs. Low DOG students on both sides usually said they would. The scale’s predictions thus proved generally valid. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2722

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: evidence quality is secondary to a listener’s dogmatism for persuasion success — the same evidence persuades low-dogmatism people on both sides and fails on high-dogmatism people on both sides.
• XREF: Echoes Motivated Reasoning / epistemic closure literature, and the book’s core RWA argument; also paradoxically implies facts DO persuade — just the right people. — connects to: Gehlen’s pragmatism concealed a refusal to test his claims empirically — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2488