Nevertheless, Jiang and He compared the processing of real versus scrambled images of faces, contrary to other studies that compared faces versus other types of objects (i.e., houses) and found no effect at all (e.g., Tong et al. 1998; Pasley et al. 2004).
These beliefs persisted, even in the face of contrary evidence.
The mantra that "bigger must be better" prevails in the face of contrary data.
Bad ideas, it appears, are extremely robust in the face of contrary evidence.
Certainly, Washington's method depended upon the good will of Southern white people, which he was always quick to postulate, even in the face of contrary evidence.
As you may have noticed, however, today's Republicans aren't big on revising their views in the face of contrary evidence.
Marty Singer, a Beverly Hills attorney who represents many subjects of Enquirer stories, told me that the publication will back down in the face of contrary evidence.
With Bernard Wiseman's "Morris the Moose," about a moose who mistakenly assumes all his friends are also moose, they consider how someone can maintain a belief in the face of contrary evidence.
The description continues: "He presents instead an artistic God who often succeeds but can also fail in the face of contrary powers in the universe, with whom war is waged for the souls of humans.
The solution would appear (sometimes the novel felt like a vast crossword puzzle) through a combination of experiment, meditation and lateral thought: I had to step firmly away from the French and face a contrary direction – another track entirely.
