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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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If everybody agrees with you then that's a pretty good sign that you are wrong. (leminal.space)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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Most of us just want to fit in, and believe what everybody believes.

Coming to your beliefs this way is not actually intelligent. We don't do it consciously. It's just tribalism or herding instinct or whatever.

So if everybody agrees with you then that's a pretty good sign that you are wrong.

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[–] PorradaVFR 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It depends vastly on the subject, audience and source of information.

I’m not going to disagree with a room of experts aligned on a conclusion based on data and verified study. Actual knowledge is in fact knowledge and a contrarian opinion, no matter how passionately expressed, is not equivalent to it.

Being contrarian solely to go against the popular position is laughably simplistic.

Everyone knows this.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

People who don't understand science don't get this. When science changes it doesn't mean the previous ideas were "wrong" - it usually just means that the framework and the data it is built around was incomplete or imprecise. That's the entire premise of empiricism, and why there are differences between how theory, fact and axiom are handled.

Far too many people believe that the history of overturned consensus suggests that modern consensus is also "wrong" when it was the empiricist framework which discovered both "truths" in the first place.