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It's a pointless endeavour when there are those who'll believe religiously in bunk regardless. I spent a considerable amount of time during the pandemic refutin
by tjpnz 3y ago
It's a pointless endeavour when there are those who'll believe religiously in bunk regardless. I spent a considerable amount of time during the pandemic refuting a "data scientist" on Twitter whose forte was misquoting BMJ articles and producing misleading charts based loosely on real data. Didn't change a single mind even when I could show it was bleedingly obvious he was full of shit. What's worse is he knew perfectly well what he was doing, and I'm certain he also owned a copy of "How to Lie With Statistics". I now wish I had spent that time on something more productive and left his followers to believe whatever they wanted to believe.
- Jensson 3y ago> Didn't change a single mind How do you know? People don't post "thanks for changing my mind!" when they change their mind. Have you ever changed your mind? How often did you go and express that you changed your mind to the person who changed your mind? Did you at some point start voting differently? Did you go to the politician that convinced you and told him he changed your mind? Probably not, people mostly change their mind in silence, many wont even acknowledge they changed their mind if you confront them.