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>it's worth asking why It's been a popular and wide spread conspiracy theory that the "shadow government" is either trying to lower the IQ or the total populat
by Garvi 3y ago
>it's worth asking why
It's been a popular and wide spread conspiracy theory that the "shadow government" is either trying to lower the IQ or the total population numbers using fluoride in the water supply. And since politicians don't get chosen on a basis of competency, but rather popularity, you have the vast majority being relatively severely logically challenged and thus unable to read scientific papers and understand complicated topics like child dental care.
- jiggawatts 3y agoOr any topic that involves more than one interacting decision, a graph, or any numbers at all. COVID made it pretty clear that neither the general population nor most politicians are remotely qualified to make decisions. Not just medical decisions, just… decisions.
- mrguyorama 3y agoI have a lot of very smart friends, like significantly higher than average in terms of degrees and technical jobs and standardized testing scores at least. One of them purchased a game that is like Apples to Apples but the point is to provide labels or name the axis of a graph. It was enlightening just how many of my friends that had a passing notion of calculus could not intuitively interpret what a graph actually means. For example, they would often misunderstand the relation between the dependent and independent variable, or not even understand what it meant for a variable to depend on another variable. Too bad too, because it was a really fun game for me.
- jiggawatts 3y agoSomething I saw a smart IT manager do is produce graphs for the monthly board report without a legend, labels, or any numbers at all. Just lines, but not even grid lines. His explanation was that nobody understood the numbers anyway, the graph is just there to be a pretty colourful picture while he talks.