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What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Wikipedia defines common sense as "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument"

Try to avoid using this topic to express niche or unpopular opinions (they're a dime a dozen) but instead consider provable intuitive facts.

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One of my favourite pages on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The thing about that is that it's a little too complete. How can there be both negativity bias and normalcy bias, for example?

To make any sense, you'd need to break it down into a flowchart or algorithm of some kind, that predicts the skew from objectivity based on the situation and personality tendencies.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they probably appear in different types of situations, not all at once. And maybe different types of people/thinking are more prone to some than to others.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly. I feel like just listing them out is of limited use because of that.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's extremely useful, because it's an index to all the known things that might be useful in a given situation. The point is not to assess all of them, the point is to not miss ones you're unfamiliar with that may be important in your situation.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I imagine psychologists can do more with it, but in practice the main thing I see formal fallacies used for is as something to shout during a debate, and it never seems to convince anyone.

If you can catch yourself using one, that's good I guess.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I work in the risk assessment space, so they are kind of critical to be aware of, for me :)