Comment on It's depressing, man
blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 2 weeks ago
A problem is that people are both very stupid and very smart, just not about the same things.
Comment on It's depressing, man
blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 2 weeks ago
A problem is that people are both very stupid and very smart, just not about the same things.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah maybe, but that’s more to do with knowledge rather than intelligence.
IMO, for successful reasoning you need two things:
The former is tough, even scientific consensus changes often due to new better studies, sometimes due to externalities and the human element etc etc. It’s understandably impossible to know everything about everything.
But the latter is about how you think, whether you’re able to reason properly, your conclusions and steps actually logically flow from your premises which are based on your assumptions.
I think a lot of perceived stupidity isn’t misinformation, but the lack of this second ability to reason properly, and even an unwillingness to do so because the conclusions are unpleasant. It’s like people became (or always were) too comfortable with lying to themselves to avoid discomfort.