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I haven't seen this comment yet, so here we go. I live in a rural community of about 15,000 people, attend church, and sports for my kids and generally spend a
by tenpoundhammer 5y ago
I haven't seen this comment yet, so here we go.
I live in a rural community of about 15,000 people, attend church, and sports for my kids and generally spend a lot of time with people in the community. These are people who don't trust the science.
They aren't stupid, they aren't uneducated, and they mostly aren't believing radical misinformation. There are two really important things to consider though.
1. They don't have experience with Science or Statistics. Outside of a high school classroom 20 or more years ago. [It's easy to get through college without any meaningful science education]
2. They have been screwed by the medical system, government, and economy.
Their decision making and behavior is primarily driven off of their intuition and second hand information from people they trust. The vast majority of unvaccinated people that I know don't believe in microchips or that the vaccine will kill them. They just think they don't need it cause they aren't at risk or because they have already developed natural immunity.
Some of them are right and some of them wrong. They are just people and doing the best they can.
- pedrosorio 5y ago> they aren't uneducated > They don't have experience with Science or Statistics (...) It's easy to get through college without any meaningful science education Maybe understanding science/statistics needs to be higher on the list of criteria used to determine if someone is "educated".
- pessimizer 5y agoOnly if we want to exclude 99.5% of people. Plenty of successful scientists are also bad at statistics.
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