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Yes and no. The public's (and media's) inability to differentiate between preprints, efficacy vs safety trial stages, and basic statistics boggled my mind. I g

by ethbr0 5y ago

Yes and no. The public's (and media's) inability to differentiate between preprints, efficacy vs safety trial stages, and basic statistics boggled my mind. I guess pre-COVID I would have said "Some people are ignorant." Post-COVID experience, I'd agree more with "Some people are ignorant and refuse to admit their ignorance, to the extent of cherry picking reality." It's like expecting some people were bad at math, but getting a stack of tests back where half have multi-page essays on why numbers don't exist.

hirako2000 5y ago
The effect of constructionism coupled with post modernism offering an attractive alternative to the complicated math. And it isn't only half idiots promoting these ideas. Just take a look at The Craft of Writing Effectively from the university of Chicago, social science of course. You will be even more baffled, it is a hard to believe and difficult to watch lecture. Apparently these things are university approved and now watched in the millions on YouTube.