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> He doesn't wear a seat belt because he doesn't want the gov't telling him what to do. [...] But he's also smart Is he?

slim 5y ago
People have weaknesses. Some people are afraid of cockroaches. You can't explain all behaviors with logic
- zabzonk 5y ago
  > Some people are afraid of cockroaches Not so much "afraid" (I don't think they will attack me) as "deeply disgusted", particularly by their smell, and their fouling of my foods. There are lots of reasons to hate cockroaches.
  - hammyhavoc 5y ago
    As a mercifully sheltered Brit, what do they smell of?
    - zabzonk 5y ago
      You are not sheltered - they are endemic in the UK. And if you have them, you will know the smell (human languages are notoriously bad at describing smells).
- geoduck14 5y ago
  My 3 yo daughter was afraid of flies. It was REALLY annoying. I tried to teach her she can poke them and they'll leave her alone.
manicdee 5y ago
You can be a brilliant neurologist and also be anti-vax. Expertise in one field doesn't imply expertise in others even if they appear closely related to the layperson.
- Eric_WVGG 5y ago
  Uh dunno if you saw his, but this morning I read about a study that shows that PhDs have the highest by-education rate of not getting vaccinated. https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-education-group-of-all-phds/ https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-educati...
  - bellyfullofbac 5y ago
    At the beginning of the year their rate was not the highest, but other groups got convinced (their rates lowered), but PhDs remained constant. To me it means the PhDs have a high degree of confidence in their own beliefs (surely thinking they've come to their conclusions rationally and with rigorous scientific reasoning), and no push will change their minds. Whether this self-evaluation is accurate or not, is a different question. I wonder what their PhDs are even in, if it's molecular biology, then, well, maybe there's a case there, but a PhD in, say, Polynesian cultures?
    - Eric_WVGG 5y ago
      My guess is that the level of education required to get a PhD instills in one an extreme level of skepticism; since most PhDs are not in genetics or virology (just simple statistics), most PhDs are skeptical of the fields from which they are not experts.
      - jjeaff 5y ago
        But if they are skeptical of the experts, why in the world aren't they skeptical of the non-expert saying the vaccine is dangerous?
        bellyfullofbac 5y ago
        "They" here are 23.9% of PhDs. So 76.1% believe the experts. The rest are probably like other skeptics (or like most of us humans), they've come up with the conlusion and they've seen the proof that supported that conclusion and dismissed proof that don't. Although as PhDs they should know more about confirmation bias...

slim 5y ago

People have weaknesses. Some people are afraid of cockroaches. You can't explain all behaviors with logic

zabzonk 5y ago
> Some people are afraid of cockroaches Not so much "afraid" (I don't think they will attack me) as "deeply disgusted", particularly by their smell, and their fouling of my foods. There are lots of reasons to hate cockroaches.
- hammyhavoc 5y ago
  As a mercifully sheltered Brit, what do they smell of?
  - zabzonk 5y ago
    You are not sheltered - they are endemic in the UK. And if you have them, you will know the smell (human languages are notoriously bad at describing smells).
geoduck14 5y ago
My 3 yo daughter was afraid of flies. It was REALLY annoying. I tried to teach her she can poke them and they'll leave her alone.

manicdee 5y ago

You can be a brilliant neurologist and also be anti-vax. Expertise in one field doesn't imply expertise in others even if they appear closely related to the layperson.

Eric_WVGG 5y ago
Uh dunno if you saw his, but this morning I read about a study that shows that PhDs have the highest by-education rate of not getting vaccinated. https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-education-group-of-all-phds/ https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-educati...
- bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  At the beginning of the year their rate was not the highest, but other groups got convinced (their rates lowered), but PhDs remained constant. To me it means the PhDs have a high degree of confidence in their own beliefs (surely thinking they've come to their conclusions rationally and with rigorous scientific reasoning), and no push will change their minds. Whether this self-evaluation is accurate or not, is a different question. I wonder what their PhDs are even in, if it's molecular biology, then, well, maybe there's a case there, but a PhD in, say, Polynesian cultures?
  - Eric_WVGG 5y ago
    My guess is that the level of education required to get a PhD instills in one an extreme level of skepticism; since most PhDs are not in genetics or virology (just simple statistics), most PhDs are skeptical of the fields from which they are not experts.
    - jjeaff 5y ago
      But if they are skeptical of the experts, why in the world aren't they skeptical of the non-expert saying the vaccine is dangerous?
      - bellyfullofbac 5y ago
        "They" here are 23.9% of PhDs. So 76.1% believe the experts. The rest are probably like other skeptics (or like most of us humans), they've come up with the conlusion and they've seen the proof that supported that conclusion and dismissed proof that don't. Although as PhDs they should know more about confirmation bias...