Most people don’t want the correct answer, they just want their preconceived biases to be confirmed.
Reddit is a big circlejerk of that
yep. The bigger the sub, the worse it was.
You would get some niche subs were there was some decent discussion but once one passed about 100K subscribers there would be a noticeable downward spiral.
It’s why a downvote system doesnt work with the masses
Uh no, if I’m looking up how to troubleshoot an issue with my computer’s motherboard, I don’t want to be told to slather it in banana pudding just because I like bananas. There ARE things where you can’t “bias” your way out of it, things that are objectively correct and incorrect.
They’re talking about people who believe misinformation or that their opinions and values are (or should be) universal. There is very little critical thinking or empathy from the masses on social media.
Are you being intentionally obtuse?
There ARE things where you can’t “bias” your way out of it, things that are objectively correct and incorrect.
There are still people who believe the world is flat.
The things you believe are objectively correct and incorrect are not the same for everyone.
That is the problem,
Reality is not the same for everyone and many people believe they have the right to enforce their version of reality on others.
What it comes down to is whether holding a particular view has a tangible perceived impact on the person. Situations where people see direct cause and effect are easy for people to reason about. However, when the connection is not clear then it’s much harder for people to tell whether one set of beliefs is more correct than another. In these scenarios people will default to ideas that fit closer with their overall world view.
There’s a thermodynamics aspect to this too. Each idea that a person holds is part of an intricate web of other ideas and concepts that they’ve internalized. Invalidating an idea means reworking the whole graph of ideas associated with it. That takes a lot more energy than simply discarding the idea that doesn’t fit. In absence of some external pressure forcing the person to do this work, the existing beliefs will be generally preferred.
I’ve always strongly believed that so I’m happy that someone else mentioned it
Experts often qualify their answers and a certain segment of the population sees this as weak. It makes sense if you consider the strength of your faith being an asset you would view any nuance as weakness.
This is the issue. Experts effectively speak in another language than the rest of us, and the dummies/(honestly mostly) intentionally disengenuous among us use that to disqualify experts.
Experts know there’s a margin of error. Dummies are easily convinced by the intentionally disengenuous that the margin of error accounted for means it’s all bullshit.
If I agree with them, they’re an expert. If I don’t, they don’t know nothing.
Socrates was right 2500 years ago
Not surprising really, humans haven’t changed in that time.
We invented Bed Bath & Beyond in that time though. That’s not nothing.
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Until they went bankrupt lol
We’ve developed better methods of shaving though.
The Internet also claims to be more experienced in a foreign country than the people living there
People on reddit certainly acted that way responding with their opinions when they think they know better than the people who actually have grown up in that country and experienced it
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Carefully considered expert opinions are more valid than an idiot’s childish, rodentine “feelings.”
