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Very true.

going on twitter and looking up what trump said isn't research either

"makes ya think don't it"

im just asking questions here

A lot of topics are too complicated for any single rando to conduct enough research on to develop a valid opinion. It's ok to rely on the research of experts.

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lilORANG posted...

A lot of topics are too complicated for any single rando to conduct enough research on to develop a valid opinion. It's ok to rely on the research of experts.

Most people don't even know how to determine who's an expert.

lilORANG posted...

A lot of topics are too complicated for any single rando to conduct enough research on to develop a valid opinion. It's ok to rely on the research of experts.

Random Twitter users and random Facebook posts are not experts

lilORANG posted...

A lot of topics are too complicated for any single rando to conduct enough research on to develop a valid opinion. It's ok to rely on the research of experts.

Yes, but you at least gotta be smart enough to know which experts to trust.

People think intelligence is like a stat they rolled higher than everyone else when they were born, and not based on whether they actually know and understand things and can actually connect things with logic or not.

Doing your own research can be a great thing, but of course it's a skill like any other to determine what is bullshit and what isn't. The key is to keep an open but critical mind. Saying "just listen to the experts" still requires critical thinking since you need to be able to tell who is actually an expert in a subject (e.g. Fox News isn't an expert source on news just because they pose as one) and also that experts aren't infallible (e.g. they can be paid off or conventional thought happens to be wrong).

peer-reviewed or gtfo

ppl dont even know what "peer review" is

Robot2600 posted...

peer-reviewed or gtfo

ppl dont even know what "peer review" is

It's when it gets reviewed by people who pee.

Solution_45 posted...

going on twitter and looking up what trump said isn't research either

He's not gonna fuck you.

People asked me to "look it up" that there were reports of people eating pets in Springfield. Well, just comments on a video, not said to me directly.

So, I did. I looked it up and found out that several months before this stuff with Springfield a US citizen from Canton, Ohio(not particularly close to Springfield) was caught by police and "didn't know" if she ate a pet. The details aren't really important(she was stopped on suspicion of animal abuse or something like it) other than Canton is not near Springfield, and this was an American citizen, not a Haitian immigrant.

This is why instead of telling people to look it up, or do your own research you show your sources and educate people directly, if you are confident you know the truth. Why wouldn't you want somebody to directly see what you're seeing?

Which leads me in to, even if the only reason you'd say "do your own research" is because you're arguing with somebody who needs their hands held every step of the way, like physically dipped into the water to know it's wet, just don't. Because trolls who simply want to muddy the waters(people saying there ARE credible stories of Haitians eating pets) use the same phrase.

that kind of shit? direct them to snopes.

explain that snopes is bi-partisan. show them the links on snopes.

*does own research*
*finds only information debunking what the person who told me to "do your own research" said*

vigorm0rtis posted...

Most people don't even know how to determine who's an expert.

They're obviously an expert if they agree with my preconceived bias.

Educate yourself.

I feel the need to say that when discussing various drugs because I'm no doctor or chemist and I've gotten some pretty terrible advice from people in the past