Finding this month’s articles thought provoking! Also finding some common threads: For example, John’s carbon tax article concludes that the public’s perception of benefit outweighs their actual benefit. Sound familiar? Similarly, my article on attributing weather events to climate change is attempting to impact people’s perceptions by capitalizing on the “recency effect”. I can see a lively conversation for how to utilize this information in our activism at the upcoming Wednesday discussion! (in my conversations with my Alexa app, she came up with this quote from someone:
”Perception is reality”)
[Perception is reality” is a 1980' phrase created by political consultant, Lee Atwater. It means don't worry about the facts, if you can get people to believe something it becomes a de facto fact.]
She also defined perception, which intrigued me even more:
“Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness.”
😉