Smartest Students In Their False Beliefs
The students were so invested in their false beliefs because their belief was never challenged or confronted. The students were raised with a certain belief. Either someone told them about their false belief and they excepted it as true or gained separate pieces of information from different resources and turn into an absurd incorrect belief. The video brought up a very interesting point on why students who were considered the smartest cannot grasp simple concepts. The answer to this question was proved when the smartest students, those who graduated from an Ivy League school or the brightest in the class could not except certain theories because they grew up thinking their way was right. The student in ninth grade changed her previous theory