Seeing is Believing?

It is often said that seeing is believing yet it is generally clear that it depends on the individual to interpret what they see and how they tend to believe what they see. Seeing is one of the major ways humans take in their surroundings therefore making sight one of the greatest sense perceptions. However this does not necessarily mean that seeing can be directly interpreted to be believing, as in order to believe, our perception is run through previous knowledge. Therefore to a certain extent seeing can be believing. A case of seeing being believing in our society can be observed as people tend to react by saying, "I don't believe you! Show me...." In particular an example could be seen as a student tries out for a football team even though his or hers credentials are good the coaches always say, "Show me what you got" meaning that they need to see to believe what has been said. However, despite being an important method of perception, seeing can not always be believing as it can be clouded by other ways of knowing such as language and emotion. As of the example we saw in class of the McGurk effect, we can see that despite hearing the same thing our sight interprets things differently giving us a different outcome all in all. I believe this is evidently showing that seeing is not believing necessarily as what we see leads to different beliefs in different people due to different interpretations and emotions.