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> "we as laymen should refrain from coming to conclusions until after a thorough investigation has been completed" People say this, but why? It seems to go ag
by nonbel 8y ago
> "we as laymen should refrain from coming to conclusions until after a thorough investigation has been completed"
People say this, but why? It seems to go against human nature. People love to speculate based on limited information and/or understanding.
- ceejayoz 8y agoSpeculation is fine. Concluding things off it is not.
- nonbel 8y agoThat is true. I didn't read carefully enough.
- twblalock 8y ago> People say this, but why? It seems to go against human nature. People love to speculate based on limited information and/or understanding. We should resist that part of our nature. It is not rational.
- nonbel 8y agoNot saying I disagree (I tend to favor rational behavior myself), but this sounds like a dogma. What evidence is there that only acting rationally is "better"?
- _s 8y agoMany reasons - the main one being drawing improper conclusions from the minimal data set available and passing them around as factually correct. Speculation is fine, it's when someone is on Fox News as an Aviation "Expert" claiming that the plane was struck by an angry Zeus's lightning bolt, which many segments of the population will believe, that's when we have problems.
- dwetterau 8y agoHere's one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi Being skeptical and keeping onself safe is fine, but things can go wrong if people are trying to falsely act like experts.