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[–] [email protected] 130 points 10 months ago (3 children)

When you find out about Dunning-Kruger and realise that that's why everyone else in the world is so stupid apart from you.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unlike most people, I see what you did there.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Real eyes realize real lies

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Deep

[–] CareHare 5 points 10 months ago

Jaden Smith diving the Mariana Trench deep.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"You ever notice how stupid the average person is? Now realize that half of them are dumber than that!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

grabs popcorn to watch inevitable argument about mean vs median

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Central Limit Theorem 🤝 Me in first year stats

"Mean and Median are the same"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll be "IQ is a normalized distribution", someone else take "IQ isn't intelligence"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I'll take "IQ is a flawed measure of intelligence, but intelligence is probably still normally distributed"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I sometimes genuinely expect people to know "basic quantum mechanics" and I'll start ranting about it as if they have some background knowledge and then when I saw the moon might not exist if I don't look at it my roommate looks at me like I'm crazy.

[–] starman2112 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

The funniest part of this comment to me is that it could be said unironically either by someone educated in college or on tiktok

I sometimes expect people to know "basic physics," which is apparently a bit much to ask sometimes. I don't mean having a firm grasp on what e=mc² actually means, I don't even have that. I'm talking about a firm grasp on energy simply being the capacity to do work, and the basic fact that there is no free energy device.

No, you cannot charge an electric car while it's driving by putting wind turbines on it. No, you cannot use gear ratios to achieve overunity. No, magnets can't solve the problem either.

PS, if you firmly believe that crystals vibrate on higher frequencies (eta: and that vibration can somehow heal you or something), but can't describe what frequency amethyst vibrates at in hertz, you are what Dunning and Kruger set out to study

[–] starman2112 13 points 10 months ago

I got curious, so I googled it. There's a company that sells amethyst that claims it vibrates at 32,876 Hz. They do not describe anything about the physical characteristics of the particular rock they measured, which would have an impact on the frequency at which it vibrates.

Another source claims amethyst resonates with the Crown chakra, which has a frequency of 768 Hz. They do not explain how they derived this frequency. 32,876 is not a multiple of 768, and would not resonate with something that vibrates at that frequency.

Yet another source claims that amethyst vibrates at 963 Hz. It does not list any physical characteristics of the rock they measured, and this is not a multiple of either of the other numbers.

Credit to Beadworks Philadelphia for explaining that different objects have different resonant frequencies, even if they're made of the same material! Unfortunately, that credit is revoked because they immediately claim that amethyst crystals can cure or treat medical conditions. Shame.

[–] emergencyfood 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

if you firmly believe that crystals vibrate on higher frequencies, but can't describe what frequency amethyst vibrates at in hertz

I'm not a physicist, but I think crystals can vibrate at a fixed frequency? Isn't that how quartz watches work?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

A crystal's resonant frequency is determined by its size and shape as well as it's material. The quartz crystals used in watches and other precision crystal oscillators are machined very exactly. Even then it's not that they can't vibrate at other frequencies, they're just not good at it.

[–] starman2112 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes and no. The quartz in watches needs to be tuned to a specific frequency. They do this by either adding material or taking some away, just like a normal tuning fork. Here's a video explaining it better than I possibly can, and it's Steve Mould, so you know it's worth the watch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

ahh worth the watch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Dunning Kruger etc etc

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I do the same with psychology. Except it's worse because people think they DO know psychology when they absolutely don't

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm so glad I don't have to deal with people pretending to know physics that often. Usually I just get "why the fuck did you major in physics" and then I go cry

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm assuming you wish you'd gone for marine biology instead, sharkfucker420?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

You could say that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is telling a lot about your psyche.








;)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And how does that make you feel?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Makes me smile, but ... Dr. Cog, can you try a bit deeper?

[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I mean, pulling it back for a second, what the fuck would an "abstract study" even be about? What, would you publish the results of your thought experiment?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

An abstract study has yet to be implemented. You cannot run an abstract study on it's own. Otherwise, it can be about anything.

for non programmersAn abstract class is a concept in programming.

[–] mindbleach 11 points 10 months ago

void* study();

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Journal of Philosophy would like a word.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Also every scientist who works in theoretical disciplines.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was actually wondering this the other day. Could I be so abstract that I don't even really say anything useful at all in the paper, but still make it sound like there's something to it? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So basically anything made by ChatGPT? ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

AI generated nonsense has been published before. Even got by peer review. That was even before ChatGPT.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Clearly it's a meta analysis of abstracts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's just a study done on a higher abstraction level. Like looking at CPU as a collection of logic gates instead of transistors. Or programming in C instead of assembly.

[–] CareHare 24 points 10 months ago

Same problem in the abstract art business. Too many artists publish only a summary of their painting or song, instead of the whole deal.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What's the context for this?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago

A summary of a scientific paper is called an abstract, it’s a stripped down version of what the paper is covering.

The joke is that this person is not scientifically literate enough to understand that “abstract” in this context has a different meaning than in other fields of study like art

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

It's abstract, you wouldn't get it.