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- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English23•10 months ago
Fancy way of saying “ignorance is bliss.”
- DavidGarcia ( @DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ) 11•10 months ago
I hate these “I’m so smart for being a depressive pieve of shit” posts. Pessimism is just a function of an unhealthy lifestyle and mindset.
- mayooooo ( @MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ) 8•10 months ago
Yeah, the world is going peachy, everything is just fine. Not like we’re on the verge of jackpot, religious morons on the rise, wars, antivax stuff… it’s the mindset right right
- Steak ( @Steak@lemmy.ca ) 1•10 months ago
To be fair this is the best time to be alive ever.
- mayooooo ( @MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ) 1•10 months ago
That’s certainly true.
- acockworkorange ( @acockworkorange@mander.xyz ) 7•10 months ago
It’s really not. The average IQ dropped for the first time, the average lifespan dropped for the first time… All data points to the 70s-00s as being the best time to be alive. We’re past peak.
- mayooooo ( @MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months ago
Damn, I’m too old - I still think it’s the 00 years. Weeee
- acockworkorange ( @acockworkorange@mander.xyz ) 2•10 months ago
Everybody knows the 90s happened 10 years ago, right?
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months ago
Can you point out to us who’s saying that they’re smart for being depressive?
- Kissaki ( @Kissaki@feddit.de ) English1•10 months ago
Pessimism is just a function of an unhealthy lifestyle and mindset.
Can you elaborate your perspective? Do you think pessimism serves no useful purpose? Why do you think it exists?
- ComradeSharkfucker ( @sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ) 11•10 months ago
The smartest people I know also always seem to be the most depressed and most knowledgeable about the world
- jeffhykin ( @jeffhykin@lemm.ee ) 6•10 months ago
TLDR just look at this chart: https://journals.sagepub.com/cms/10.1177/01461672231209400/asset/images/large/10.1177_01461672231209400-fig2.jpeg
The choice of paratheses make this paper so hard to read:
“We also find a negative (positive) correlation between cognitive ability and pessimistic (realistic) beliefs”
- lckdscl [they/them] ( @lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats ) English8•10 months ago
That’s a common convention in academic papers to demonstrate pairs of correlations, it’s the same as writing
“We also find a positive correlation between cognitive ability and realistic beliefs AND a negative correlation between cognitive ability and pessimistic beliefs.”
- acockworkorange ( @acockworkorange@mander.xyz ) 3•10 months ago
Thank you for explaining that. I hate it.
- leds ( @leds@feddit.dk ) 1•10 months ago
Sounds like you improved your cognitive ability
- acockworkorange ( @acockworkorange@mander.xyz ) 1•10 months ago
Cognitive ability and memory are two very different things.
- jeffhykin ( @jeffhykin@lemm.ee ) 2•10 months ago
I aslo cn tip lik dis an u no Wat I mnt. Itz lot shrtr 2. y dnt acadmiks do dis? its highr cognitv lod 2 thy lik dat rite?
There’s a reason (no good reason) normal (academics) human beings don’t (do) use that kind of positive (negative) writing.
My field has different but equally terrible high cognitive load writing conventions, and I call them out as bad every time.