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I find it helpful to remember. When covid was starting to spread I worried a lot about potential exponential growth and was confused why a lot of others didn't

I find it helpful to remember. When covid was starting to spread I worried a lot about potential exponential growth and was confused why a lot of others didn't seem so worried. While there may be many reasons, one that came to mind is that they may not have learned as much about exponential growth as I had in electrical and computer engineering and in working with startups. So it helped me to remember not everyone has the same education and experience that I do, that we're all relatively ignorant, depending on the field.

bmitc 3y ago
There will always be people that don't know what you know and vice versa. It's a given fact of life. It's like forgetting that the sky is blue. Haha. I.e., I agree with you, but your statement is more humble than the last.
- hutzlibu 3y ago
  "but your statement is more humble than the last." It also was a different person ..
  - bmitc 3y ago
    I know it was a different person.
Slava_Propanei 3y ago
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kjkjadksj 3y ago
You are giving an example of the very issue you complain about. You worry about this not from a background of epidemiology, but another field entirely. Some of the people who were not worried were deferring to expert opinions they have read about the matter.
xorbax 3y ago
The vast majority of people dont really "get" functions or plots or line fitting They took 7th grade math, but assert that y=mx is meaningless in real life and doesn't help them understand anything they have to deal with
- noduerme 3y ago
  Yeah. Originally when those people refused to wear masks I quietly wished them death. But after awhile I got more tired of hearing educated people pretend that their intellect was keeping them alive more than their economic leverage was. Rooting for the ignorant to die of covid was a bad look. Granted, we also had a president who said he loved the uneducated, so it all took place at a moment when that line could be drawn in a certain way. In any event, the snobbish castigation of people who don't understand science or math didn't help and actually hurt the cause of getting them to protect themselves and everyone else.

bmitc 3y ago

There will always be people that don't know what you know and vice versa. It's a given fact of life. It's like forgetting that the sky is blue. Haha. I.e., I agree with you, but your statement is more humble than the last.

hutzlibu 3y ago
"but your statement is more humble than the last." It also was a different person ..
- bmitc 3y ago
  I know it was a different person.

Slava_Propanei 3y ago

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kjkjadksj 3y ago

You are giving an example of the very issue you complain about. You worry about this not from a background of epidemiology, but another field entirely. Some of the people who were not worried were deferring to expert opinions they have read about the matter.

xorbax 3y ago

The vast majority of people dont really "get" functions or plots or line fitting They took 7th grade math, but assert that y=mx is meaningless in real life and doesn't help them understand anything they have to deal with

noduerme 3y ago
Yeah. Originally when those people refused to wear masks I quietly wished them death. But after awhile I got more tired of hearing educated people pretend that their intellect was keeping them alive more than their economic leverage was. Rooting for the ignorant to die of covid was a bad look. Granted, we also had a president who said he loved the uneducated, so it all took place at a moment when that line could be drawn in a certain way. In any event, the snobbish castigation of people who don't understand science or math didn't help and actually hurt the cause of getting them to protect themselves and everyone else.