Fancy way of saying “ignorance is bliss.”
The smartest people I know also always seem to be the most depressed and most knowledgeable about the world
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”
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.”
Thank you for explaining that. I hate it.
Sounds like you improved your cognitive ability
Cognitive ability and memory are two very different things.
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.
I end up reading a lot of academic journals, and the way that they’re written I swear are intentionally obtuse. Sometimes people say “they only seem that way because they are communicating complex ideas”, but when I read papers in my own field I know that that’s not really the case. I once made it three quarters of the way through an article before I realized that all they were doing was slapping a PID on the problem they were defining. You could have written the same article and made it understandable to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the subject but instead they had to make it so obtuse that practitioners in the field would really struggle.
Finally proof that oppressed gamers like us are smarterer.
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.
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
To be fair this is the best time to be alive ever.
That’s certainly true.
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.
Damn, I’m too old - I still think it’s the 00 years. Weeee
Everybody knows the 90s happened 10 years ago, right?
Can you point out to us who’s saying that they’re smart for being depressive?
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?
