As the title says, how often do you admit you’re wrong? Is it different when it’s a factual dispute versus something more subjective?
I make an effort to concede early if I’m in error. I think because my mother almost never admits fault. She’ll fall back to “that’s not what I meant” or similar deflections first, and that’s really annoying.
The last big factual error I made was about the distance of walking, and that’s where I learned about Taxicab Geometry ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry ).
I think some people believe admitting fault is a sign of weakness, but I find it’s more of a power move. It takes strength to do it, and people can tell when you’re sweating and desperate. Usually it leads to resolving the conflict faster and cheaper, too.
(I expect some people will feel the urge to reply they’re never wrong. I’ll file that under never admits fault.)
As long as the person I’m admitting I’m wrong to deserves that concession.
I sometimes argue with a Facebook “friend”. He’s a fucking idiot that will instantly change subject or whatabout when I catch him in something stupidly wrong. He then is too stupid to track the multiple different claims and arguments he keeps shoving into the thread so he interprets some of my comments as responses to completely different topics and loudly proclaims how wrong I am and that I can never admit it. I don’t admit I’m wrong to him. Mainly because I’m not making many factual claims, just pushing back in him being a fucking dumbass. But also because he would never do it.