A friend of mine was telling me his mother is getting kicked out of a senior's home if she doesn't stop fighting with this other woman that she doesn't get along with. I was laughing and saying "no way", he said yeah, these old ladies wale on each other with their canes.

The major difference between belief and fact is those who believe something have come to a conclusion no facts will contradict. Well informed people are open to new facts that oppose their beliefs. That also defines an open and closed mind.