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in other words: the answer is that type 1 errors self-correct quickly, but type 2 errors self-correct slowly.
by jiggunjer 6y ago
in other words: the answer is that type 1 errors self-correct quickly, but type 2 errors self-correct slowly.
- karmelapple 6y agoSpeed of acceptance may indeed be related to the type of claim, but I think it’s also highly related to the ability to confirm the evidence yourself. There are many ways to confirm major pieces of evidence for, say, the earth being round. It’s easy enough to do, even without getting into a rocket and seeing the earth’s curvature. There are many fewer ways to confirm a whole lot of other ideas, though, whether there’s scientific rigor behind the idea’s evidence or not. For example, I can’t easily confirm the Higgs Boson evidence. But it also doesn’t directly impact my life much, so it’s ok for me to be a little unsure about it and not have first hand evidence. There are other topics that impact me much more directly than Higgs Boson, and thankfully those things are typically much easier for me to get evidence for. So I think the truth does indeed eventually come to fruition... but when we have vested moneyed interests pushing against the truth? Yikes, that makes things much more difficult.
- Xelbair 6y agoYeah, you cannot confirm those yourself - so what do sane people do? they consult the experts. The Sea of human knowledge is too vast for any single human to traverse it fully. But here you have people who are anti-experts, who are matched with others with similar sentiment. And flat-earthers are a very specific example. What about politics, where facts do not matter? Or even objective issues, which got politicized? The only thing the current social media do, is to entrench beliefs of everyone using them, without regard to what that belief is.