How much evidence is needed to convince someone of an idea

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Assignment:

At the start of her essay Dzubay brings up the concept of those who forget (or did not live through) history are doomed to repeat it. Address this concept in relation to her essay and another topic. Also, as you are in college/academia, mention your take on how much evidence is needed to convince someone of an idea? Think of yourself as well, how much evidence is needed to convince you of something? As people will try to weigh in with experience and gut feelings over hard facts and research, with correlations that have no causation.

In a sense humans are irrational so how much is needed to make them see reason? Now granted some will never see reason and that a little knowledge can be dangerous (see the Dunning-Kruger effect) but these ideas play a role in the research essay we are about to write. You need to consciously determine what is good research and what is not, what is a reliable source and what is not. Determine what are beliefs and opinions vs. what is fact and an informed view. Use the rest of your post to examine this and pull in current examples.

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