wonder if this is amplified in the US by weird latent ideas Americans have about democracy like a conviction that if 50.1% of people do X, that means that the 50.1% are *right*, so if you're describing a tendency someone's on the less probable side of you're calling them *wrong*
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What use is this stated ‘human tendency’ 49.9% of the time?
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what is it you are expecting an answer to this to look like
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Probability and statistics are fields which I’ve noticed even smart people sometimes find incredibly difficult to understand
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Used to think this only applied to when their politics were involved but seeing my smart engineer friend struggle with basic poker concepts made me think otherwise
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I write health comms that often contain the likelihood of certain objectively measurable health events this is the absolute truth. "The norm is my human body and brain and mine alone."
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not all men
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Nah, I wouldn't do that
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You could state a human tendency as 95% vs 5% and you’ll get people from the 5% AND the 95% each using themselves as obvious proof that there couldn't possibly be such a tendency
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It's sort of like how there are people who wipe their butts standing and people who wipe their butts sitting and neither have ever considered the other half of humanity does anything differently.
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