Maybe, hopefully, a link to the study is in the article linked to in the replies, I admit to not having read it yet.
But I remember coming across this study showing that people (and iirc there was a gender disparity that was noted) who self identified as "logical" were actually worse at solving logic problems than those who weren't.
And the hypothesis given was that if someone thinks they're logical, they're not going to challenge their innate biases, they're just going to simply deny they even have them.
Their identity is too invested in being logical that they'll refuse to admit when they're behaving illogically.
I've tried searching for the study again, but I keep coming up empty handed.
Which is why there's a big difference between people who strive hard to recognize and correct when they're behaving illogically, and people who simply claim to be logical.
I try hard to be as logical as possible, but that's because I'm inherently an anxious, sometimes paranoid, mess, who can't really rely on quick intuitive thinking for very long until things go haywire, so I often have to step back and try to be as objective as possible.
I bristle when people label me as logical. I'm most certainly not, I just try (and regularly fail) to recognize when I'm acting illogically, then try to fix it.
I mentioned this phenomenon a couple months ago in a comment ranting against Elon Musk stans and nerd culture in general, since it engenders an entirely unwarranted and uncritical self-righteousness where moral correctness (the source of most self-righteousness) has been substituted for "logical correctness", regardless of any actual logical processes.
Nerds think they're automatically right because culture told them they're smart, basically, and this completely blinds them to their faults.
I found this out firsthand, long ago, when interacting with other "logical" people.
And, of course, when I openly admitted my faults, I was dogpiled on, because it wasn't about a dynamic process for them. It was about a fixed identity.
Maybe, hopefully, a link to the study is in the article linked to in the replies, I admit to not having read it yet.
But I remember coming across this study showing that people (and iirc there was a gender disparity that was noted) who self identified as "logical" were actually worse at solving logic problems than those who weren't.
And the hypothesis given was that if someone thinks they're logical, they're not going to challenge their innate biases, they're just going to simply deny they even have them.
Their identity is too invested in being logical that they'll refuse to admit when they're behaving illogically.
I've tried searching for the study again, but I keep coming up empty handed.
Which is why there's a big difference between people who strive hard to recognize and correct when they're behaving illogically, and people who simply claim to be logical.
I try hard to be as logical as possible, but that's because I'm inherently an anxious, sometimes paranoid, mess, who can't really rely on quick intuitive thinking for very long until things go haywire, so I often have to step back and try to be as objective as possible.
I bristle when people label me as logical. I'm most certainly not, I just try (and regularly fail) to recognize when I'm acting illogically, then try to fix it.
I mentioned this phenomenon a couple months ago in a comment ranting against Elon Musk stans and nerd culture in general, since it engenders an entirely unwarranted and uncritical self-righteousness where moral correctness (the source of most self-righteousness) has been substituted for "logical correctness", regardless of any actual logical processes.
Nerds think they're automatically right because culture told them they're smart, basically, and this completely blinds them to their faults.
I found this out firsthand, long ago, when interacting with other "logical" people.
And, of course, when I openly admitted my faults, I was dogpiled on, because it wasn't about a dynamic process for them. It was about a fixed identity.