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That places you in with 98% of the rest of the population. 

utee94 has described me as a contrarian, and while he's clearly wrong about that, I have noticed that in people who agree with my conclusions, most of them arrived there in the dumbest ways.  It's hard to give credit to people who arrive at a good destination with faulty maps, on accident. 

The irony and hypocrisy of some of these posts has me laughing out loud. 


The I am smarter than you crowd fully operational. 

To me, a contrarian is someone who looks for different explanations and approaches for things, like say Einstein, to name one.  In corporate culture, this is generally disliked, a lot, versus go along crowd, which means the go along fellows end up being managers, who like other go along fellows, not the squeaky wheel types.

It's even worse when the squeaky wheel ends up being right, that gets you in hotter water.  Better to be silent.

I should wite a book.

I have a serious case of confirmation bias.  I try to fight it but it's hard to know how well I succeed. 

It's hard when the world is composed of entities who know this about me and use it against me.  Facebook, Google/YouTube and the like have spent a gazillion dollars on focus groups, measuring things that give me tiny hits of dopamine, and adjust their algorithms accordingly.  They want me surfing their crap 24/7.  They're not inclined to show me things I disagree with.  It could lead to the impression that I am sane, and "they" must all not be.  A popular sentiment in online argument comments is something like "What world do you live in?!??!!"  In fact, in the online world, studies show that people of naturally varying opinions, the more time they spend online, they effectively ARE living in an entirely different world. 

Well....some ideas and people are insane.  But not all of them.

That places you in with 98% of the rest of the population. 

utee94 has described me as a contrarian, and while he's clearly wrong about that, I have noticed that in people who agree with my conclusions, most of them arrived there in the dumbest ways.  It's hard to give credit to people who arrive at a good destination with faulty maps, on accident. 

So we grow to think that there's no way any reasonable person could believe what we've been told the other side believes, so they must be dumb, or evil, or insane. You get a much different picture, of course, reading what the other side says out of their own mouths (and based on the best communicators amongst them, not cherry-picking the most bombastic). Sometimes things actually sound almost, dare I say it, reasonable!