Why are people so dumb...

No1newts said:
... and instantly believe anything written online as if it is gospel?

I pop on FB every week to keep in touch with old friends and the amount of stuff people "share" and say repost this to stop it happening blah blah when its out right lies/wrong is baffling. Some clown posting something about Danes murdering whales for fun as a coming if age ceremony, hundreds of replies stating how evil the Danish are its a disgrace ban this, ban that. Two seconds of research proved it false but I pointed this out only to be told "we'll it says so in the article so it must be true" :eek:

I see this in the office where people read guff in the Fail or the red tops and off they go ranting. Or watch garbage like Benefits street and declare this is how the world works :rolleyes:

Bit of a rant there but I suppose my point is, is anyone concerned by how gullible and stupid people are these days? I'm sure I could go on the net now and fabricate a story about Ed Miliband being a satanist who sacrifices children and it would be all over the net as the truth in an hour.

Worries me how much people are willing to believe anything they read and have no brain power to find out the facts they are just spoon fed what the media gives them.

/rant off.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Faroe_Islands

By the looks of it you're the one who's going to end up looking like an idiot here.

Pilot whale hunt is an integral part of Faroese social culture. As the attenders of a grindadráp usually are men, women do not actively take part in it, but are bystanders or onlookers. This is part of the traditional division of labor concerning grindadráp that is centuries old, and has not changed over time.

In Faroese literature and art, grindadráp is an important motif. The grindadráp paintings by Sámal Joensen-Mikines rank internationally as some of his most important. They are part of a permanent exhibition in the Faroese art museum in the capital Tórshavn. The Danish governor of the Faroe Islands, Christian Pløyen, wrote the famous Pilot Whaling song, a Faroese ballad written in Danish entitled “A New Song about the Pilot Whale Hunt on the Faroes”. It was written during his term of office (1830–1847) and was printed in Copenhagen in 1835.
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I know they've been doing it there for years. I used to be a member of Greenpeace and the Whale and Dolphin Conversation Society and they were always up in arms about the Faroes. I've seen tonned of pictures of the slaughter there and the sea going red with blood long before the internet was around to share them.
 
Moses said:
The Faroe Islands story is basically true, given the pilot whales are dolphins, it's part of Denmark and there's a ritual element to it where the men are the ones who kill them and the women stay away, etc. The meat they get is dubious, too, given the potential health risks.

DEM IRONIES.
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A ritual element because women stay away? Does that apply to strip clubs too?

Also there is no proven health risk with the neat and considering they have been doing it as far back and they aren't dropping like flies it cannot be that bad.
 
Lysander said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Faroe_Islands

By the looks of it you're the one who's going to end up looking like an idiot here.



I know they've been doing it there for years. I used to be a member of Greenpeace and the Whale and Dolphin Conversation Society and they were always up in arms about the Faroes. I've seen tonned of pictures of the slaughter there and the sea going red with blood long before the internet was around to share them.
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Yay wiki link time!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_drive_hunting
 
estebanrey said:
Could have said about smoking pre-1960s though too.
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Was that when leaded petrol and CFC's weren't damaging? :p

I saw someone post about the 'whaling' thing earlier and I have to agree. Was basically, 'Why and what is the point?' Because its a tradition? To me, that and most parts of religion really make sense... :rolleyes:
 
I had to do some research into the Faroe Islands but yes, it appears true and quite the tradition over there; not that I condone their actions.

Back to topic, literally just had a friend share some crap on Facebook, again about Apple, having 1000 opened iMacs that cannot be sold because they have been opened, comment and share the post. I have just publicly shamed his lack of IQ in believing such crap. It's so obviously fake it pains me to see people who can't work that out for themselves..

Oh and free £500 Argos vouchers is another one... Think I need a sweep through on my friends list; not that I actually post that much, just stay in touch with long distance friends and relatives.
 
Frightful Boar said:
Half of the population is of below average intelligence and even people of average intelligence are fairly stupid.

The stupider ones are more likely to frequent Facebook and internet forums more as they can't get jobs, so it stands to reason that the average online person with whom you interact will be vastly stupider than average.
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Great generalisations at work here...
 
elmarko said:
Part of the problem is that stupid people are unaware of their own intelligence deficit due to the problem of illusory superiority/Dunning–Kruger effect.

It requires intelligence to asses intelligence - meaning a large portion of the population believes themselves to be significantly more skill-full than they really are.

"Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:

- tend to overestimate their own level of skill;
- fail to recognize genuine skill in others;
- fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;
- recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they are exposed to training for that skill"

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect)

Because of this deficit they share information with an air of authority they in reality do not posses, which is why you get morons sharing worthless face-book campaigns, spurious medical practices & clearly fake articles designed to increase network traffic.
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Wow that is perfect explanation, I think I said something similar to a friend a while back. Thanks for that. Intelligence at least true intelligence for me is also about self awareness, most people walk through the world in a zombie haze eating up whatever crapp they're fed living by their emotions and not their rational thinking, Why? it's easier to let someone else tell you how to think than to think for yourself, your brain has to expend less energy therefore it makes sense from an evolutionary perspective conserving energy and all that. Also mastering your own emotions is one of the toughest skills to cultivate.
 
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Well, it's only one of many reasons - but it does explain in part why people don't learn.

They are simply unaware of the huge gap. The core problem I've always found is that the reality of the world can very rarely be explained by simple duality - right/wrong, good/evil, lazy/hard working etc- it requires vastly more effort to apprentice the shades of grey.

This is why on average, the idiot will share similarly stupid views on a whole array of different subjects - will speak from pure emotion instead of reason, will ignore evidence & facts in favour of emotional explanations or personal experience (which as we all know, is often bias by preconceptions) - refusing to accept the complexity of reality & usually will partake in intellectual reductionism to the point of absurdity.

It requires very little intelligence to split the world into two groups.
 
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Twitter has completely replaced singing up for industry mailing lists for me. It's much nicer keeping track of your industry by following companies, people who seem to be right about things and certain publications than to have your inbox bombarded with stuff.
 
Adam_101 said:
Me too. Amount of nonsense makes you sick! If it ain't someone moaning its something else on FB.
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Yeh, moaners, sharers/posters of drivel and the group of people being discussed here have all moved to my acquaintances list. I pretty much use facebook these days just to keep up to date with the latest news from companies/communities I have liked.
 
Ken said:
Yeh, moaners, sharers/posters of drivel and the group of people being discussed here have all moved to my acquaintances list. I pretty much use facebook these days just to keep up to date with the latest news from companies/communities I have liked.
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Yes thats it. We need that dislike button on FB I think. :)
 
It's called the remove friend button. If you share nothing in common with someone, haven't spoken to them for years, and their only contribution to your day is to make you irritated when you go on Facebook then why even have them as a contact?
 
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