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Why can't people just say "sorry, I don't know the answer"?

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T3sl4co1l:

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bobcat2000:
The guy in my psychology class said that there were 4 different personalities in your head.  They constantly argued with each others.  If one of them won, "sorry, I don't know the answer" might come out from your mouth.

DimitriP:
For the record, the number on the floor is quite possibly an unfinished 8. But I don't really know for sure :)

coppice:
Its very hard for many people to say "I don't know the answer to that". You see this a lot with religious people. Having an answer to every question is important to them. The veracity of the answer is far less important. For some it is completely irrelevant. Study of the mind seems to indicate that useful reasoning takes place at a subconscious level, and that conscious reasoning just creates post hoc rationalisations for what subconscious areas of the brain come up with. The need to rationalise an answer for every question is driven in the conscious mind, even when the subconscious has come up with garbage for it to work on.

bobcat2000:
The guy in my psychology class also said that if there were enough people in one side, the people in the other side would be forced to agree mentally with the other group.

What that guy in my class is saying is that if there are a bigger group to say this is a "6" for example then the group who say this is a "9", the group who say this is a "9" will be forced mentally to agree that this is indeed a "6".

The group who will say "I don't know" maybe too small in size.  So, they will not say anything.

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