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There's an entire genre of science clickbait where the title is extremely noncommittal, and it gets upvoted because it jives with users worldview and self-ratio

There's an entire genre of science clickbait where the title is extremely noncommittal, and it gets upvoted because it jives with users worldview and self-rationalization. "See, it's ok to be alone. That one study from 2011 of pizza chain efficiency suggests there could be potential benefits to being alone." "See, it's actually a good thing to drink alcohol everyday as long as I do it 'in moderation'."

ksk 9y ago
Not only that, this is based on self-reporting and then coming up with some model that fits their own beliefs. Wasn't there recently an article that said how people don't really know themselves that well? How ironic. I have seen a lot of nerds falling for this kind of fake-science. IME the people who claim to be logical are most likely to believe this kind of BS.