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[–] EnthusiasticNature94@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I agree with Dr. Jey McCreight on the science.

But for determining truth, both sides are wrong here.

Dunning-Kruger is bad, but so is credentialism and appeal to authority.

Many people with PhD's have had Dunning-Kruger. Someone else mentioned Ben Carson being great at neurosurgery, but not politics.

A PhD doesn't make you infallible.

I am saying this as someone who is taking graduate-level courses and will be pursuing my PhD. When I'm correct, it's not because my future PhD causes reality to magically conform to my opinions - it's because I rigorously looked at the evidence, logic, and formed my own conclusion that better aligns with reality.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 22 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

You can even be incorrect on a subject you have expertise in.

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

that's why we have peer reviews for new findings by experts.

Exactly, imagine if we threw away the entire peer review process and made it about, "Well I have a PhD! Checkmate."

We'd descend into a dark age for science.

Experts often disagree.

If it were that easy, everything would be solved. We wouldn't need so much research or so many universities.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

....and all in between, hormonal and/or physically. "Only two genders" is false

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The phrase is funny but you wouldn't catch me dead wearing a logical fallacy

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Can I interest you in a logical phallus?

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 day ago (4 children)

To be fair, a Person with a PhD still can have Dunning-Kruger on other subjects.

Ben Carson is a great Neurosurgeon, but dumbass on politics.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Neil deGrasse Tyson and literally anything other than astrophysics

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[–] bradd@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

They can also on their subject.

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[–] LongLive@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)
[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Error: url1 and url2 are the same

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[–] Tibi@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 18 hours ago

I think it's sus that a Math Lecturer decides to post an article about philosophy and then doesn't describe any of the steps he took. The article basically just says i did a thing, but doesnt explain what he did/how to reproduce the result... On the other hand, philosophy is a field with many wrong conclusions and the like, so it is believable. But again in my eyes it's not proven, since it's just 'one guy' saying something and not replicated nor reproduced.

[–] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 55 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I think a lot of these XX XY "only two genders" people aren't just dunning Kruger, they're transphobic idiots with an agenda. So even if they had the science and knowledge it wouldn't matter because they're pushing their hateful stupid agenda, facts and logic be damned. They don't care, they just want to rationalize hating us trans people because we make them uncomfy.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I would honestly be very surprised if any Republican politicians actually care about sex or gender. I think they're just evil and those are convenient issues to divide the working class. When you don't have popular policy in real issues, you need to make up some fake ones to get people to still support you.

[–] drthunder@midwest.social 19 points 1 day ago

The current moral panic about queer people is definitely manufactured, but the hatred that it's stirred up is still real. All the religious psychos in power (including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson) really believe that stuff and want to enforce their hierarchy.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One time a woman told me that my lack of a second X Chromosome meant I would "always be a man"

So I gaslit her into thinking her husband had klinefelters.

I hate how Republicans think transphobia is science

[–] jaek@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

That's gloriously devious

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 129 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

Note how they always enshrine gender in biology, but then make all kinds of non-biological statements about what gender is.

"XX is woman"/"Large gametes is woman"/"can conceive is woman"

And then they'll say

"Women aren't as aggressive", "women are more emotional", "women like being in the home more", "those are women's clothes", etc.

The only reason it's so important for it to be biological is because of how it punishes gender non-conformity and makes the lives of trans people hell. Like it isn't ideologically consistent and they know that. They just don't care. If it was just about genitals or chromosomes, then why is it that gender dictates all these social things about us? The only reason to root gender in how you were born is to ensure gender roles are as rigid and immutable as possible.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

how it punishes ~~gender~~ non-conformity

Fit the mold or die. Always the same.

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 160 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Confidently incorrect is the default with these people. I spend most of my time with family aggressively correcting misinformation about my field and related ones. They will die earlier thinking they know more because of Youtube. Getting them to stop taking bad health advice and mystery joint injections from a fucking chiropractor is the latest battle.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 96 points 1 day ago (11 children)

The impression of legitimacy enjoyed by chiropractic is too damn high. I was well into my 20s before I ever heard a single word about it being pseudoscience. Walking around (usually on people's fucking spines) calling themselves doctors, I absolutely believed it was just some sub-variety of physiotherapy, which I guess is the point. In the whole universe of alternative medicine, I think that has to be the practice which has most effectively disguised itself as conventional medicine. It's gross.

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[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Yeah but science can be proven wrong an change over time, while my beliefs and biases are forever!"

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[–] psoul@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Can I get a T shirt that says “I have Dunning-Krueger and your Phd looks cute”? I just have a lot of BS to share and I don’t want to be sorry about it.

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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 56 points 1 day ago (3 children)

While this is very funny, and definitely representative of a sort of ignorance/arrogance commonly found in ideologues - I recently learned that most people talking about the effect have, in fact, been Dunning-Krugering themselves.

Insightful video on the topic.

What most people expect the effect to look like:

What the actual results were:

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[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait until they learn about XXY, XYY, and XO individuals.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There hugs AND kisses people?

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