Not too fast .. apparently PhDs are well represented in the skeptic group; especially the hard sciences such as maths, phycics and engineering. It's something of a bath-tub curve for skepticsm: it's high at the lower socio-economic/lower educational attainment levels (I don't mean this in any pejorative/negative sense) drops as you go up…
Not too fast .. apparently PhDs are well represented in the skeptic group; especially the hard sciences such as maths, phycics and engineering. It's something of a bath-tub curve for skepticsm: it's high at the lower socio-economic/lower educational attainment levels (I don't mean this in any pejorative/negative sense) drops as you go up the socio-economic/educational attainment curve, stays there at graduate/post grad level and then goes back up for PhDs. The belivers are well represented in the middle lumpen; the laptop warrior, credentialed, class who don't genuinely have to think for their living, or step outside of their cozy homes
One of my great disappointments throughout this whole escapade has been how bright people I work with in the hard sciences - maths, engineering, physics, chemistry- were and are so willing to accept the corona doom and all that goes with it. For example, at the start of a meeting there is the discussion of how strange and unexplainable it is that they had to cancel school because all the vexed teachers came down with COVID just a few weeks into the in-person classes, and they can't wait to get their kids vexed too; then we go into discussing highly technical engineering. It is the most amazing compartmentalizing I have ever seen.
It seems at the small scale i.e. personal experience rather vs a statistical analysis of a large data set, one just can't tell who is going to be a believer or non-believer. I have had many tradesmen working in my house over the last 2 years (even during the height of the hysteria) and they have mostly thought that it's over blown; I suppose their experience 'out and about' (as they that's what they need to do to earn a living) was a) they had not dropped dead, b) they were not tripping over piles of bodies. Conversely, others that I'd have thought would be skeptics have proven to be the biggest bed wetters.
Non-believer for them, believers for you - various clowns and malicious characters on Twitter and some in real life (I know personally of only one or two)
Believers - those who fear the consequences of not being.
Well, I was just referring to the public health PhD’s - and really thinking Fauci & Birx, etc. Other science professionals & medical types have been leading the way in opposition to the Karens and petty tyrants. Interesting that you note the bathtub curve. Hadn’t thought about it before. Very clearly bifurcates along political lines though.
In other words the smart ones, socio-economic is only tied to the educational curve as well as attainment the difference shows up with just education, PhD's and those who are just as smart regardless of a piece of paper on the other end.
Not too fast .. apparently PhDs are well represented in the skeptic group; especially the hard sciences such as maths, phycics and engineering. It's something of a bath-tub curve for skepticsm: it's high at the lower socio-economic/lower educational attainment levels (I don't mean this in any pejorative/negative sense) drops as you go up the socio-economic/educational attainment curve, stays there at graduate/post grad level and then goes back up for PhDs. The belivers are well represented in the middle lumpen; the laptop warrior, credentialed, class who don't genuinely have to think for their living, or step outside of their cozy homes
One of my great disappointments throughout this whole escapade has been how bright people I work with in the hard sciences - maths, engineering, physics, chemistry- were and are so willing to accept the corona doom and all that goes with it. For example, at the start of a meeting there is the discussion of how strange and unexplainable it is that they had to cancel school because all the vexed teachers came down with COVID just a few weeks into the in-person classes, and they can't wait to get their kids vexed too; then we go into discussing highly technical engineering. It is the most amazing compartmentalizing I have ever seen.
It seems at the small scale i.e. personal experience rather vs a statistical analysis of a large data set, one just can't tell who is going to be a believer or non-believer. I have had many tradesmen working in my house over the last 2 years (even during the height of the hysteria) and they have mostly thought that it's over blown; I suppose their experience 'out and about' (as they that's what they need to do to earn a living) was a) they had not dropped dead, b) they were not tripping over piles of bodies. Conversely, others that I'd have thought would be skeptics have proven to be the biggest bed wetters.
Non-believer for them, believers for you - various clowns and malicious characters on Twitter and some in real life (I know personally of only one or two)
Believers - those who fear the consequences of not being.
Non-believers - neither of the above.
Well, I was just referring to the public health PhD’s - and really thinking Fauci & Birx, etc. Other science professionals & medical types have been leading the way in opposition to the Karens and petty tyrants. Interesting that you note the bathtub curve. Hadn’t thought about it before. Very clearly bifurcates along political lines though.
In other words the smart ones, socio-economic is only tied to the educational curve as well as attainment the difference shows up with just education, PhD's and those who are just as smart regardless of a piece of paper on the other end.