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Polling tends to show public support for certain disciplines (e.g. medicine, engineering, hard science) and not others (e.g. social sciences) I don’t think the
by scarab92 2y ago
Polling tends to show public support for certain disciplines (e.g. medicine, engineering, hard science) and not others (e.g. social sciences)
I don’t think the public resent intelligence per se, but rather dislike when it is combined with judgementalism
- jimkleiber 2y agoYes, it's a two-sided problem, with the "more intelligent" sometimes looking down on those who seem "less intelligent" and the "less intelligent" sometimes thinking the "more intelligent" are looking down on them.
- mrguyorama 2y agoYou say this like we didn't just have massive outrage at hard medical science because the reality was that, yes, you should be made to get the damn vaccine. The american public, beyond all else, hates being told they are wrong. They are rarely right. So how do you square that circle?