I don’t think you could rely on people having read a bit about the matter.
The reasons we do or don’t believe something aren’t so simple.
Behind my belief that quantum physics is a respectable field is not some specific evidence I have that its descriptions of the world are actually true.
My belief in it is derived from of a complex ‘web of trust’ - I place a
certain amount of trust in the channels from which I hear that there is
evidence for it, because I trust the social and scientific means by which
that evidence is gathered, disseminated and evaluated. And so on.
Also because quantum mechanics is the result of a mechanism—“scientific method”—that I trust to generally provide reasonable results.
I don’t think you could rely on people having read a bit about the matter.
The reasons we do or don’t believe something aren’t so simple.
Behind my belief that quantum physics is a respectable field is not some specific evidence I have that its descriptions of the world are actually true.
My belief in it is derived from of a complex ‘web of trust’ - I place a certain amount of trust in the channels from which I hear that there is evidence for it, because I trust the social and scientific means by which that evidence is gathered, disseminated and evaluated. And so on.
Also because quantum mechanics is the result of a mechanism—“scientific method”—that I trust to generally provide reasonable results.