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| magic:
--- Quote from: eti on September 19, 2020, 12:23:21 am ---often, and usually millennials --- End quote --- Because Boomers told us that we all are important and our opinions matter, as if they actually did. Because Boomers told us that everything can be figured out by Logic™ and Science™ and so we do, using you and your problem as a guinea pig, thank you for your continued and enthusiastic participation in the Scientific Method™. Because Boomers told us that training matters less than Creativity© and Learning How To Learn©. Because Boomers told us that Open Debate® and Meritocracy® ensures that the best opinions ultimately win, so a few bad opinions can, should and will be tolerated, and they will inevitably be few. Something more from fellow Millennials? :popcorn: |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: bobcat2000 on September 19, 2020, 05:09:41 pm ---The guy in my psychology class also said that if there were enough people in one side, the people in the other side would be forced to agree mentally with the other group. What that guy in my class is saying is that if there are a bigger group to say this is a "6" for example then the group who say this is a "9", the group who say this is a "9" will be forced mentally to agree that this is indeed a "6". The group who will say "I don't know" maybe too small in size. So, they will not say anything. --- End quote --- One group is frequently intimidated into agreeing with another group, even when they know they are wrong. Never underestimate the power of persuasion when an argument is backed by unpleasant consequences. :) |
| Cerebus:
It doesn't have to be intimidation, for social animals like man there's a natural tendency to want to 'fit in', so people will completely unconsciously tend to agree with the majority opinion. There are, of course, some who will not automatically agree with the majority opinion. Some of this group are people who like to think for themselves before coming to a conclusion which ultimately may or may not agree with the majority opinion, and there are others who always just simply disagree for its own sake. Depending on one's own want, the latter are either iconoclasts, have oppositional defiance disorder, or are 'wee gobshites'. |
| Fixpoint:
Is this thread a self-referential example for what the OP complained about? Oh dear. People want to be admired, people want to be envied. And they see Instructibles.com and YouTube as the perfect means for that. Not StackOverflow, because there you need real expertise to be successful. On YouTube, in contrast, it is enough to be an arrogant, egotistical loudmouth (for guys) or pretty (for girls). So, this sometimes leads to extremes like a teenage noob giving a "tutorial" for what she just "learned" a minute ago. In reality, the person didn't understand anything which shows in the tutorial which teaches wrong things. On top of that, I once read an article written by "some guy" who opined that one of the best thing a beginner can do is "teaching". What!? Yes, it was probably a self-referential thing. Again. |
| Bassman59:
--- Quote from: DimitriP on September 19, 2020, 04:53:08 pm ---For the record, the number on the floor is quite possibly an unfinished 8. But I don't really know for sure :) --- End quote --- Why do we assume that it was a number? |
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