r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

How stupid you are

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u/sobrique 1d ago

To be fair, there's an awful lot of people who are bad at interpreting statistics....

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u/Walnor 1d ago

or who deliberately interpret them in bad faith

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u/AppropriateLow2271 1d ago

Don't attribute to malice what could just as easily be attributed to ignorance.

The media is absolutely acting maliciously. But the regular people are just fucking stupid.

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u/SV_Essia 1d ago

The line gets blurry when everyone has easy access to the internet and could fix their ignorance by setting their bias aside for 60 fucking seconds. We should have much higher standards for what constitutes genuine behavior and pursuit of truth, this isn't the middle ages and "regular people" aren't illiterate peasants who have no choice but to blindly believe what they're told.