I get impatient with this too but in the long run, I think it's good that under informed people state their opinions, so they can be corrected and have their beliefs swayed. And so the example of them being corrected publicly can sway others.
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Well, really I'd like people to know when they don't have any idea about something and not have the opinions either silently or verbally.
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I agree it'd be better if they were more honest about the limits of their knowledge but if that isn't an option and I have to choose between them being arrogantly vocal about their opinions or just shutting up and never adjusting those beliefs, I choose the former.
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Me too.
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lol I get what you're saying, but oddly I have noticed that smart, knowledgeable people can actually glean something from listening to those they perceive as ill-informed. Once in a while.
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If they actually aren't ill-informed. If I try to have opinions on physics, you're unlikely to glean anything.
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Haha well you're operating within the empirical realm solely, and in that, of course you're right. But to use your example, if I were a physics major, one thing I could glean would be "boy the average person really doesn't know much about this stuff."
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But "liberal" is the opposite of those who try to shut everyone up. Re-read your favorite Kindly Inquisitors.
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Tolerate ignorance while secretly hoping for higher signal/noise ratios.
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The ratio is merely a consequence of biology and complexity...the nice thing is we keep people engaged rather than run an oligarchy. The hope is the best ideas win on the merits, and to allow those best ideas to be found, we must tolerate lots of bad ones.
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Most intelligent people know where to go for higher signal/noise ratios. It's a good thing we're not relegated to sifting through YouTube comment sections hoping for a nugget of wisdom.
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Twitter is the wrong place to make this request. No one shuts up and everything is about politics. Politics is primarily about power, not knowledge. Your request is best made at the university, but....see above and replace "Twitter" with "University"
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Me too, but then I remember that everybody thinks that they already know what they're talking about.
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And if you have got things wrong, how will you ever know it without voicing your views and using others as a sounding board?
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Unless um...the talking bit includes a question mark...or a querilous tone at the end of a sentence, maybe?
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I’m not an academic, so I recognise that I have a poor grasp of things I know nothing about.
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In the Twitter-verse there is an under appreciated distinction between unconscious incompetence and conscious incompetence.
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I so wish this also. I'm a food tech engineer, and I get twitchy when people start to talk about food production. So so so much bad data and false "facts" there
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maybe you should start a Twitter account specifically for the purpose of ranting about stupid beliefs people have about food production it could be therapeutic, and the rest of us would learn
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Don't hold your breath.
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