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I think we should make it more widely understood how bad we human are at science. Our brain is full of what we call cognitive biases, that prevent us from proce
by invaliduser 10y ago
I think we should make it more widely understood how bad we human are at science. Our brain is full of what we call cognitive biases, that prevent us from processing data correctly, our sensors are specially bad, even the ones we mostly rely on (eyes and ears) are very very easily cheated, and we can't even tell. Our storage unit (memory) is awful, we forget a lot, and time is our ennemy.
We call a lot of science concepts «not intuitive» because of the limitations of our brains, and very little people, at the cost of studying a lot, and being highly stimulated in their first years of life, can actually really get a grasp of them. Quantum mechanics of course, but just see how people reacted to the monty hall problem: https://priceonomics.com/the-time-everyone-corrected-the-worlds-smartest/ https://priceonomics.com/the-time-everyone-corrected-the-wor...
Other examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterintuitive#Counterintuition_in_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterintuitive#Counterintuit...
Sure, we are better at science than all other species on earth, but in absolute terms, we human are very badly designed for it. Yet, we try our best.