Coronavirus thread. Content warning: 50/50 chance this will help vs harm. If you are comforted by sideways philosophical arguments read on. If not, I refer you the next tweet on my timeline.
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I see a wide variety, lots of people I know are like 'lol this is a fuss over nothing'. People's emotions correspond to their understanding of the risks and they all have wildly different heuristics / criteria for sufficient evidence of risk
I don’t particularly agree that as a rule people’s emotions are correlated to their understanding of risk.
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As in, I believe that I'm going to die as soon as someone coughs near me. I am very scared, as opposed to a little bit scared. This results from me believing the worst scare stories I see online, and not understanding how to access or assess the best scientific evidence
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Or, I remember all the other scare stories about pandemics which came to nothing. The Government and media do this from time to time - my heuristic is to ignore anything like this and so I'm not emotional at all.
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