• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      It’s not specific to Reddit, you’ll see that in any community, probably because we are social animals.

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        4 months ago

        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

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          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.