Religious indoctrination in childhood (daily irrationality training). Choose your own truth. Anecdote preferred over data. “Lived experience “
Poor investment in math and science education.
Innate difficulty of primate brain in understanding very large or very small numbers make it difficult to accept evolution, the age and size of the universe, and assessment of risk.
Also
Dunning Kruger effect + Social Media -> amplification of stupidity.
Truth becomes “Truthiness”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness?wprov=sfti1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect?wprov=sfti1
Religious indoctrination in childhood (daily irrationality training). Choose your own truth. Anecdote preferred over data. “Lived experience “
Poor investment in math and science education.
Innate difficulty of primate brain in understanding very large or very small numbers make it difficult to accept evolution, the age and size of the universe, and assessment of risk.
Politics.