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Because it causes unneeded worry until the studies actually show causation rather than weak correlation and there is so much misinformation out there already. T
by stjohnswarts 5y ago
Because it causes unneeded worry until the studies actually show causation rather than weak correlation and there is so much misinformation out there already. The general public seems to have no concept of what statistics actually mean outside of "so all i'm hearing is there's a chance so now I'm going to decide to not get a vaccination because there is a chance even if the chance covid kills me is far higher"
- tasogare 5y ago
- hindsightbias 5y agoYou are talking about extreme outliers there. Practically unicorns in the US.
- wellthatsawrap 5y ago
- john_moscow 5y ago>Because it causes unneeded worry until the studies actually show causation rather than weak correlation and there is so much misinformation out there already. You know, the studies can show anything other than the party line only if there is a culture of questioning the party line. Otherwise, the scholars are publishing praises to planned economy and condemning the "rotting West" while the plebs are queueing for bread. That was the fucking state of affairs in the USSR for decades, and the only reason the West didn't sink that low is that it had the culture of questioning the narrative, that so many people today are trying to destroy.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoI am always skeptical that's why I'm asking for proof before people go off telling people who only absorb rather than filter their information. If I own a business (like hackernews/facebook/reddit) and I see people spreading "what if" information that has a very weak basis I'm well within my rights to shut that down if I know about it. Those free thinkers can go listen to Joe Rogan, C2C, or Infowars if they want fringe opinion/weak correlation