Why Do People Favor Opinion Over Scientific Evidence?

I enjoy thinking more deeply about things. My brain enjoys it the way my body enjoys good exercise. How do people who only use type 1 thinking keep from dying from boredom? Maybe their enjoyment of attacking others is a way of counteracting that boredom?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-people-favor-opinion-over-scientific-evidence/

Oct 15, 2015
Keith E. Stanovich, an emeritus professor of applied psychology and human development at the University of Toronto, answers:

Decades of research have shown that humans are so-called cognitive misers. When we approach a problem, our natural default is to tap the least tiring cognitive process. Typically this is what psychologists call type 1 thinking, famously described by Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman as automatic, intuitive processes that are not very strenuous.

This is in contrast to type 2 thinking, which is slower and involves processing more cues in the environment. Defaulting to type 1 makes evolutionary sense: if we can solve a problem more simply, we can bank extra mental capacity for completing other tasks. A problem arises, however, when the simple cues available are either insufficient or vastly inferior to the more complex cues at hand. [Other tasks like deciding which TV show to watch.]