Why it's so hard to convince a climate denier

[Bill USA]

23. are you referring to Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?

I do know that science is based on observation of real world events and designing experiments to test hypotheses with real world events. Putting scientists in a category of people who " tend to trust conclusions arrived at through abstraction, analogy, metaphors and models" ignores the essential part of understanding the natural world which involves observing and measuring events in it. Without careful observation and measurement you can't have scientific progress.

I would say the following statements from our OP, nicely describe what scientists do when reaching for a better understanding of the natural world:

"I solve problems by working through facts until I understand the problem.
· I start with facts and then form a big picture.
· I trust experience first and trust words and symbols less."


naturally, this is not the entirety of what scientists do. There is the effort made to arrive at general laws, which starts with formulating an hypothosis, followed by testing the hypothesis. For complex systems models will be proposed as an hypothesis. If observed events do not confirm the hypothesis or model, then the hypothesis or model must be modified to better describe what actually happens and can be observed and measured.