An interesting model that explains this is the Dunning-Kruger effect. Some of you may be familiar with it.
As someone pursuing a bachelor's degree in science, I often see that many physicists, mathematicians, and researchers in general are so attached to their ideas that they associate them with their identity, so that any attack on their ideas is an attack on them.
There is indeed an ego component necessary for the dissemination of one's ideas, but when it comes to admitting a mistake, most people, often the most successful ones, refuse to accept that they ... (read more)
An interesting model that explains this is the Dunning-Kruger effect. Some of you may be familiar with it.
As someone pursuing a bachelor's degree in science, I often see that many physicists, mathematicians, and researchers in general are so attached to their ideas that they associate them with their identity, so that any attack on their ideas is an attack on them.
There is indeed an ego component necessary for the dissemination of one's ideas, but when it comes to admitting a mistake, most people, often the most successful ones, refuse to accept that they ... (read more)