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alexRr92 t1_j557og7 wrote

Reply to comment by Jackmeoff611 in Study of more than 2,400 Facebook users suggests that platforms — more than individual users — have a larger role to play in stopping the spread of misinformation online by giuliomagnifico

I find this very true about grey areas, it's like people have forgotten grey areas exist despite our reality being mostly made up of grey areas/complexity.

The real issue I feel is too many are way to eager to speak on subjects they don't understand instead of openly admitting to the fact they don't understand. There's nothing wrong with not understanding, you can't know know everything about everything. Also people don't seem to trust one another anymore contributing to the problem.

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EddoWagt t1_j55me14 wrote

>The real issue I feel is too many are way to eager to speak on subjects they don't understand instead of openly admitting to the fact they don't understand.

This is probably the vocal minority, as people who know they don't know will probably remain silent

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Chpgmr t1_j57h4fk wrote

Same with those street interviews. Look at how many people simply look and walk by vs how many actually stop to talk. You just get the weird confrontational people who talk before they think more often than not.

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IRYIRA t1_j57qsib wrote

2,400 years since Socrates and the smartest person in any room is the one who says, "I don't know." Of course we understand a lot more about our world today than we did then, but new data could always completely change the rules by which we understand how the world operates. None of that means we should stop trying to understand our world or that everything once believed to be true is wrong, rather we should recognize that what we know to be true today could be false tomorrow, or merely partially true.

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Chiliconkarma t1_j56gckz wrote

Also, prejudice and people are very willing to ignore a lack of information. Thinking more like "round block goes in round hole", than "out of X possible scenarios, you should worry about this: .....".

If the poster mentions an acceptable clue for what the answer should be, then the answer can only be what the clue indicates.

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