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[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 6 points 8 hours ago

People who see gender as a F or M binary in 2025 are willingly ignorant to the bone.

[–] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

Critically thinking now, how strong is the evidence here?

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[–] holdstrong@lemm.ee 42 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

“It’s basic biology” mfs when advanced biology

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 27 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

it is basic biology, ie biology simplified to teach a kid in middle school. the thing is sciences don't stop at middle school level. a lot of university education is about clarifying that things you learned before were simplified to the point that they're practically useless if not outright wrong.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Light travels in straight lines, next year its a wave and then its particles. What you said isso true about uni rethreading.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

To be fair light does travel in straight lines (more or less... ignoring that nothing travels in any set or even single path something something veritasium video), its not lights fault if a straight line in physical reality doesn't always happen to match up with the geometry we invented.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

See I didnt go that far, mindboggling

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[–] EnthusiasticNature94@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 20 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.

[–] Lumbardo@reddthat.com 2 points 11 hours ago

If one hasn't fallen victim to Dunning-Kruger, then they have not advanced their knowledge in any meaningful capacity.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 22 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 11 points 20 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 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Can I interest you in a logical phallus?

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Wouldn't that be a logic probe?

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 day ago (5 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 23 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 2 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Error: url1 and url2 are the same

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[–] Tibi@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 8 minutes 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.

Edit after replied comment edit: The second article you linked (actually the first in the post) changes my believe about the dunning-kruger effect. Thank you for sharing!

[–] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 55 points 1 day ago (10 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.

[–] IZZI@lemm.ee -4 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Tell us what the 3rd gender is please.

~95% of all animals in the world, including humans, are gonochoric, have only 2 sexes.

Turner syndrome and klinfelter syndrome are exatly that, syndromes

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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 13 hours ago

That's gloriously devious

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 129 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 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.

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 161 points 1 day ago (14 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.

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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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