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arrow-up1354arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect; when experts find articles published within their field to be full of errors, but trust articles about other fields in the same publicationen.m.wikipedia.org@[email protected] to Today I [email protected]English • edit-21 month agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish20•1 month agoYeah it is really frustrating to try and educate the reddit hivemind about your field of expertise. They like things that sound good and plausible and fit their biases, not necessarily where the scientific consensus points to.
minus-squareoce 🐆linkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-21 month agoIt’s not specific to Reddit, you’ll see that in any community, probably because we are social animals.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 month agoIn real life if I give people my academic title they’ll trust me more than the random person who is arguing with me about basic facts in my field of expertise. For some reason, not on reddit though
minus-square@phdepressedlinkEnglish8•1 month agoOn an anonymous platform like reddit there’s no verification. Unless you cite what you’re saying one person is as likely an expert as anyone else.
Yeah it is really frustrating to try and educate the reddit hivemind about your field of expertise.
They like things that sound good and plausible and fit their biases, not necessarily where the scientific consensus points to.
It’s not specific to Reddit, you’ll see that in any community, probably because we are social animals.
In real life if I give people my academic title they’ll trust me more than the random person who is arguing with me about basic facts in my field of expertise. For some reason, not on reddit though
On an anonymous platform like reddit there’s no verification. Unless you cite what you’re saying one person is as likely an expert as anyone else.