How People Think
A brief post today.
A is like B if anything is similar between A and B and you want A to be like B.
A is different from B if anything is different between A and B and you want A to be different from B.
A person who is 99% good can still be classified as evil by focusing on the 1%.
A person who is 99% evil can still be classified as good by focusing on the 99%.
By ignoring statistics, one could say that these people are both the same as both are capable of good and evil.
Statistics vs the coin toss. Some people see future events as coin tosses; other see these events as statistical. An example. Lung cancer is more common among smokers than nonsmokers, with 91% of all lung cancers in men occurring in smokers. One view of this is that to avoid lung cancer because it is statistically better to be a nonsmoker. Another view is that anything can happen to anyone, so getting lung cancer in the future for an individual is a yes/no event, a coin toss. Luck is the big factor for the individual.
Many intelligent people use these methods to defend their beliefs and actions, to separate their gods and heroes from those of other people. Watch especially for this during the political season.
A is like B if anything is similar between A and B and you want A to be like B.
A is different from B if anything is different between A and B and you want A to be different from B.
A person who is 99% good can still be classified as evil by focusing on the 1%.
A person who is 99% evil can still be classified as good by focusing on the 99%.
By ignoring statistics, one could say that these people are both the same as both are capable of good and evil.
Statistics vs the coin toss. Some people see future events as coin tosses; other see these events as statistical. An example. Lung cancer is more common among smokers than nonsmokers, with 91% of all lung cancers in men occurring in smokers. One view of this is that to avoid lung cancer because it is statistically better to be a nonsmoker. Another view is that anything can happen to anyone, so getting lung cancer in the future for an individual is a yes/no event, a coin toss. Luck is the big factor for the individual.
Many intelligent people use these methods to defend their beliefs and actions, to separate their gods and heroes from those of other people. Watch especially for this during the political season.
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5:08 AM
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