Garoo

Many interesting, scary things in this article (and when you think about it, it makes sense: we’ve been hard-wired to trust what we see, because sight was the most tamper-proof of our senses until a few decades ago) but I didn’t expect this bit:

In fact, people trust photographs so much that they actually place more weight on information that is accompanied with an image, regardless of how related or useful that image is. If you show participants a statement, and an image that provides no proof of that statement, they are far more likely to find that statement true than if it had no image alongside it.