Evidence is perceived differently by people. People can look at one issue and give different evidences to support their opinion depending on the level of their cognitive function. Some will argue their own evidence and truly believe it is accurate, others will argue about their evidence and not necessarily believe it’s accuracy, but they will keep debating for the sake of proving themselves right. Looking at that, somebody who is listening to both evidences, while being neutral, with a normal level of intellectual, neither above or below average, can tell which evidence is probably accurate.
Inductive reasoning, which “is a method of reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying some evidence for the truth of the conclusion.” Which can be done very easily in an early age for a human being. An example of that, is how the author of “Evidence” used a quiz for a human and a computer to identify a simple picture of a rabbit. A human, with no effort can identify the picture as a rabbit. In contrast, a computer came with more possibilities of what the picture of that rabbit can be. This type of reasoning, because it is based on life experiences, can be sufficient in some case to provide reliable and accurate evidence.
Not every decision requires evidence, for example, people with monotheistic religion do not need evidence to believe in one god, heaven, hell, angels, holy books, prophets, and the day of judgment, instead they depend on faith. On the other hand, other individuals reject evidence as an excuse to express and project themselves and their acts with no religious or moral restrictions.
“Albert Speer a minister of armaments, and a close friend to Adolf Hitler,” closed his eyes because he did not want to see anything that will steer him away from the course he was taking.He did not question Hitler, and did not want to look for evidence to know what was going around him. In result, 1.1 million men, women, and children lost their lives in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Germany. Judge William Stoughton, committed the similar crime but in a smaller scale in sentencing 190 people to be imprisoned and 19 hanged the Salem witch trials. Hate crimes against Muslim, and many other incidents that took place in the past and in the present time, were not based on evidence instead it was based on cognitive thinking.