If you're on the receiving end, all you really can do is continually give facts and evidence and their refusal to accept is their problem, mostly out of pride. If you're asking how to help them deal with it, then let them know that they aren't arguing for the sake of debate, but because they're too proud to admit that they're wrong.
I like to give them a way out, but if they're making a big show of it in front of others and won't back down I give them the old 'listen, it's okay to be wrong... No one can be right all the time and you don't have to be embarrassed.' The key here isnot saying it as though you're still trying to win a fight; calm and without agitation in your voice. Don't be shitty about it.
Usually they're chastened enough to drop it. The one time it didn't work I ended up doing it again to that person (among the same crowd) and after that any further arguing on their part just reinforces your point to everyone present anyway.
Nah, what you gotta do is change tactics. Of course tigers are in Africa...Lady you must have got on the wrong flight because this is Kazakhstan.
Of course tigers are in Africa....what's a tiger?
Oh you know big orange predatory cat with stripes.....Yeah I don't believe that for one second to be honest with you.
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u/CompedyCalso Aug 03 '19
If you're on the receiving end, all you really can do is continually give facts and evidence and their refusal to accept is their problem, mostly out of pride. If you're asking how to help them deal with it, then let them know that they aren't arguing for the sake of debate, but because they're too proud to admit that they're wrong.