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Public health officials are in a bad situation because average people are never gonna parse a nuanced paragraph explaining the situation.
by whateveracct 5y ago
Public health officials are in a bad situation because average people are never gonna parse a nuanced paragraph explaining the situation.
- AndrewBissell 5y agoThis is both wrong, and an attitude that leads pretty strongly in the direction of authoritarianism.
- whateveracct 5y agoI agree that it can lead to authoritarianism. But it's not wrong. Ever read random convos on the internet? Like on social media? People cherry-pick sentences from essays and paragraphs and people have entire conversations divorced from full context. Because people don't read paragraphs, and they refuse to not be in a binary state of Yes or No. I'm not saying nobody can handle nuanced paragraphs, but I think if your message is always 5+ sentences with any complex logical structure, people will not get it. And bad actors will distort what you say to get people riled up in their favor.
- wkearney99 5y agoAnd it's a bad situation made worse by malicious actors with whole other agendas in play that seek to deliberately twist the explanations.
- whateveracct 5y agoYep - these bad actors will just pattern match or otherwise take things out of context (e.g. finding "contradictions")