Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Balog on September 30, 2014, 03:18:29 PM
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http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2014/09/science-is-for-stupid-people.html?m=1
Science is a rigorous way of making fewer mistakes. It’s not very useful to people who already know everything. Science is for stupid people who know how much they don’t know.
What the left calls science is really a hypothesis accepted as a fact without the skepticism. Its intelligence is a conclusion without bothering to determine whether it’s true. Science and intelligence are perpetual processes that are never truly settled. But in law and government, as in all other fields, the left discards the process and asserts an inevitable outcome by virtue of its superiority.
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I'm looking forward to when the behavioral science people actually implement all their policies based on individuals "biases" that make them make "bad" decisions and discovering that all the biases update when someone tries to take systematic advantage of them1, just like we discovered about unemployment and inflation in the 70s.
1: Note: You probably can take systematic advantage of biases if the cost of analyzing those biases is low. Marketing that places the more expensive item prominently is an obvious example. So long as the difference in price is still fairly low, people will often choose convenience rather than making cost comparisons. Of course, then your are left wondering if it is a bias towards prominent products or towards convenience of shopping and convenience of not needing to spend energy on price comparisons.
For an example where it doesn't work as well because of price differences, see how well "product location" makes a difference at car dealerships.