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You may not know many people who regularly smoke pot because you "find it cripples productivity and turns me into a zombie. I stay away from it." You may be see
by nonamegiven 14y ago
You may not know many people who regularly smoke pot because you "find it cripples productivity and turns me into a zombie. I stay away from it." You may be seen by users as either hostile, or at least not obviously friendly to their activity, so they self select you out of that information.
I think similarly, people who are anti-gay don't seem to know a lot of gay people, despite the fact that N% of the population are gay.
- jwoah12 14y agoExcellent explanation of the confirmation bias, and I suspect this is exactly what's at work here.
- bluekeybox 14y agoCompletely concur with your observation, except your analogy with gay people (something beyond one's power of choice) is somewhat uncalled for.
- nonamegiven 14y agoBut in both cases one can choose to let it be known or not. You can choose to share that you smoke or not, and you can choose to share that you're gay or not. It's that choice to share information or not that I'm talking about.