Clinging to the Untested, from Pitt T. Maner III
One disability many of us face is clinging to unusual or untested beliefs to explain what is seen. It is hard not to be influenced by superstitions and attachments to ideas.
Perhaps a deeper cause may be found in another statistic: 70% of Americans still do not understand the scientific process, defined in the NSF study as grasping probability, the experimental method, and hypothesis testing.
- excerpt from Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain