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  • Science is more like having a laser pointer. Through careful application and repetition, you could technically infer something about the location of the cat. But the cat moves around constantly and doesn’t like you being there, and you only have limited time to do it, because the funding for your cat-finding project is about to run out.





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    2 days ago

    This is Amazon, too. This is basically any online shop that is active worldwide and organized around individual sellers, and it’s one of the reasons I prefer to shop elsewhere nowadays. Hundreds of almost identical products, all with 4-5 star ratings of questionable veracity, photoshopped or downright fake images of the products. I simply can’t judge what the products are like anymore.










  • I realized that I phrased my point very poorly. I didn’t mean that people don’t do sports, eat healthy, and live fulfilling lives. They sure do. What I meant was that people (like when you ask them personally or in a survey) tend to exaggerate their healthy/good habits and downplay the bad ones. So it’s good to take self-reports with a grain of salt. It’s a well known kind of bias (social desirability).