#irrational
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKP6DU6Vjt0
#bias #behaviouralscience #psychology #groupthink #interesting #introspectioncueing
#confirmationbias #cognitiveillusions
#insuficientinformation #engagelogicalslowthinking #withholdprematureconclusion #tapthebreaks
#biastoeasyanswers #biastonarratives #narratives #inconsiderate #bullying #usvsthem #redvsblue
#cherrypicking #evidencecherrypicking #cherrypickingevidence
#seeingwhatyouwanttosee #usingreasoningtofitprejudice #illusions
#massformationpsychosis #howithappens
"We make many of our most important decisions based on what can only be called cognitive illusions. This is embarrassing for us to realise, but the evidence for it is undeniable."
so to that, i say:
"there is no shame in the truth." -- Minbari Religious Cast Elder to Student, Babylon5.
"head into the wave." -- me / old saying / unattributed
as in find your way to where you no longer defeat yourself with your subborn clinging to your self image as one who makes no such errors.
embrace the errors.
then you are on the path. then you are learning.
our confirmation bias, our cognitive illusions, are due eternal vigilance, to not succumb to their blinding arogance and mental/investigative/scrutinative sloth.
this is true whether stupid, or oh so much more clever.
especially if you are oh so much more clever.
because if you really are oh so much more clever, you will suffer more fuel on that fire.
and also, thinking you're oh so much more clever, is improbably true. not that i'm saying truth's always derivable, or even aproachable, through simple statistical analysis, but... since we're always going on a little information, and the dangerousness of how little that information is, can be worsened by how much littler we make it by our confirmation-biasing, cognitive illusions, our slothful lazy hastey grasp on shortcuts, we dont even realise, we're doing it, we dont even realise how little we have, and we tell ourselves we have a lot, we tell ourselves as much as we have, is a lot of what there is, even to the extreme, that it's all there is. unwittingly, we become know it alls, with next to nothing. and we think we're the smarty-est.
there's no shame in the truth.
we're not that smart.
we're not as smart as we think we are. no shame in the truth, that we think we're smart, and that we think that's smarter than we are.
knowing this,
helps us get smarter.
wiser.
wise enough to continue learning.
wise enough to catch ourselves from short-handed thinking.
wise enough to see when we have, and wise enough eagerly accept that, and even point it out to others. wise enough to accept we'll likely never absolutely be beyond this, and even more likely are not beyond it right now, and so reapplies the humility introspective vigilance, not to identify as one who has risen above it, but to persist in plucking away and batting away all the times it has happened already, and all the times more oncoming.
"all i know is i know nothing, and sometimes i forget even that much." -- Me, often, but not often enough without vanity, not often enough really heeding what i (and socrates) mean by it.
#alliknowisiknownothing
#alliknowisiknownothingandsometimesiforgeteventhatmuch
still vulnerable to us-vs-them'ing. like you.
(ps, i forget where i got that link from, but thanks again to whoever shared it. ^ all that from merely first 20 minutes. .... lets see where it goes.)
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#consider
U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder
The gap in Covid’s death toll between red (#Republican) and blue (#Democrat) #America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point. In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump voting counties died from #Covid, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden voting counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the #death rates in Trump counties and Biden counties widened.
Some conservative writers have tried to claim that the gap may stem from regional differences in weather or age, but those arguments fall apart under scrutiny. (If weather or age were a major reason, the pattern would have begun to appear last year.) The true explanation is straightforward: The #vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing severe Covid, and almost 40 percent of Republican adults remain #unvaccinated, compared with about 10 percent of Democratic adults.
This situation is a #tragedy, in which #irrational fears about #vaccine side effects have overwhelmed rational fears about a deadly virus. It stems from disinformation — promoted by right-wing media, like Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, the Sinclair Broadcast Group and online sources — that preys on the distrust that results from stagnant living standards.
With regards to #medical #mandates, "#Vaccine passports" and/or "#lockdowns" in the #UK please see:
Sidaway v. Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital
"A mentally competent patient has an absolute right to refuse to #consent to medical #treatment, for any reason, #rational or #irrational, or for no #reason at all, even where that decision may lead to his or her own #death."
This establishes the #principle of a legal right to #refuse medical treatment, preventative or curative. The ruling has been used in many cases and upheld.
In addition, please see the #International #Covenant on Civil and #Political #Rights Article 1 Section 1, Article 7 and Article 12 Section 1. The UK signed the #ICCPR September 1968 and ratified it in May 1976.
ICCPR Article 1 Section 1:
"All peoples have the #right of self-determination. By #virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their #economic, #social and #cultural development."
ICCPR Article 7:
"No one shall be subjected to #torture or to #cruel, #inhuman or degrading #treatment or #punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his #free #consent to medical or #scientific #experimentation."
ICCPR Article 12 Section 1:
"Everyone #lawfully within the #territory of a #State shall, within that territory, have the right to #liberty of movement and #freedom to choose his residence."
The UK is a ratified signatory nation of the ICCPR and has a #legal obligation to abide by the Articles within the treaty.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx