Critical Thinking Puns

I myself included.

From a young age we are literally taught not to question authority, to sit quiet and not ask questions - which is like great for creating workers, but terrible for members of a democracy.

I considered myself a super-duper smart man, but for a long time, I really didn't know how to think critically. I would know the who, what, where, when, and how (which is like 20% of the thought process).

The why however (the other 80%) - was always underdeveloped as even though I thought I knew concepts, I had trouble linking them and synthesizing new opinions of my own.

Too many of us hear an opinion, choose it as our own, and defend it without objectively trying to understand why we do so. And how it connects to our other opinions for that matter (does it conflict, disprove, support, etc.)

I really think critical thinking should be as mandatory as English or Math on it's own.

Edit: some people were offended by my 'above average' intelligence comment so I changed it for clarity

Justification for the first part of the title:

1. Mainstream religions base their views on ancient texts that are not relevant in today's society. This leads to outdated and barbaric practices like child marriage, genital mutilation, corrective rape, conversion therapy and in extreme cases, terrorism.

2. Religions curbs a person's reasoning abilities which lead to deliberate ignorance. Religious people can't (or won't) consider an alternative explanation for the "proofs" of god, instead choosing to accept these as facts and basing their entire world view off of it.

3. Religion promotes shame, especially sexual shame, and especially towards women. (ie. Hinduism depicting menstruating women as impure and Islam depicting women who don't cover their hair as shameless and undignified). This promotes the policing of women's bodies, victim blaming and sexual ignorance.

4. Going off the 3rd point, religion actively promotes ignorance. By labelling everything as "karma" or "god's will" or "god's test", religious people end up ignoring real world problems, fail to hold people accountable, and diminish real effort by real people as "god's gift/blessing".

These are all I can think of for now.

Now, on to the second part of the title, why I think schools should have philosophy/critical thinking classes:

It promotes critical thinking at a young age, which is not only important in recognising religion for what it is (a scam) but also for daily life. I see people talk about teaching kids taxes and shit but I'll be honest, at that age, I was more so having an existential crisis and just starting to question the world around me but I also had a short attention span and wasn't interested in adulty shit like taxes. School children are at an age where they are naturally curious about their surroundings and looking for answers, and what better way to help them find those answers, but by equipping them with the tools needed to find those?

It's a much better way compared to force existing opinions on them because it would help them reach their own conclusions, and much more reasonable ones compared to feeding them lies/biased opinions. Teaching them about biasses, how to argue, and how to think, will enrich their lives, plus they will pay attention (especially if the teaching is done right) because they are already trying to look for those answers themselves.

It will also promote kindness, humbleness and open mindedness far more then religions would because they

I constantly see people yelling at each other on reddit, blaming this side or that side. It's the same shit over and over, just boxing individuals into a narrow box. There are a ton of reasonable people with slight differences in political opinion to you in real life that you'd get on with well. Yet you demonize them over the internet.

If you define yourself as entirely team red/blue and blindly hate your "opposition" you're an idiot. We are all supposed to be working together in this world. Sadly we are more divided than ever.

Apes, listen up, I’m going to talk to you about something tangentially related to stonks. What is that?

Critical thinking

Why, might you ask, does this baby ape want to share knowledge about this? Because I literally teach this shit at a top 20 UK university in the Russell Group (happy to verify my academic status with mods if needed, could always get cool flair like ‘The Psychologist’ or ‘The Professor’). I am member of British Psychological Society and I lecture on statistics, developmental (child) psychology, and psychology/critical thinking in general – my first degree is in forensic psychology at undergrad level, where we did a lot of understanding of criminology and criminal psyche (probably not surprising how useful that is to assessing these hedgies), interrogation techniques, extremism, deception – I even spent an entire elective module learning specifically about psychopathy and was involved in a research project specifically about looking at psychopaths within business/academia. You might think I was training for the MOASS before I even realised.

As someone who has teach maths and stats to a bunch of people who hate maths and stats, and who need to learn to critically read dense journal articles and critique theories from the last 200 years to spot academic FUD and pop-psychology bullshit, this is literally my bread and butter. I also run SaaS tech startup making cool medical programmes (also happy to verify company with mods if needs be) – so I know a fair bit about programming/working with clients as well and have recently worked on some work on NHS trust’ work with a private company so I know a fair bit about healthcare system here – all of this to say, my wrinkles in brain are for things other than stocks and that we have many amazing DD writers here who deal with every minutiae that happens in the markets.

I have to spend my days when not writing software on teaching psychologist-to-be apes in learning how to spot statistical, numerical and research crud that either slipped through peer-review or was just blatantly false and how to think critically (as well as things like how baby-apes learn language, whether development is a continuous process, etc – I also teach fun stats like inferential testing and hypothesis testing). Most days on campus, you’ll find me screaming at students ‘correlation is not causation!’. I teach across a bunch of undergrad (BA) and masters programme (MA/MSc) and I also teach PhD / doctoral students or assist

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I'm pretty sure that's what he meant.

The mRNA that the shot introduces into your cells will make your ribosomes produce spike proteins. These spike proteins are supposed to be recognized by your body, and your body makes anti-bodies for these proteins.

How will your body know these proteins are pathogens? After your body produces the proteins through your mRNA how will it affect gene expression?

https://www.pnas.org/content/99/25/15908.short

https://www.nature.com/articles/nsb967

https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.3.12.2676679

All these studies show that mRNA does in fact regulate gene expression, genes contained in DNA, thus mRNA can affect DNA/RNA through cascade action, protein markers, etc.

Now my biggest question, I hope someone here can answer because this question keeps getting me banned whenever I ask it elsewhere.

The spike protein created by the vaccine is just like the virus, in that it binds to the ACE2 receptor on your cells. ACE stands for angiotensin converting enzyme, this enzyme breaks down angiotensin. With the spike protein being produced by your cells, wouldn't it be logical that these spike proteins that bind to ACE2 receptors would bind to ACE2 receptors? Otherwise how would the body recognize them?

Now, what happens when you block ACE2 receptors from breaking down angiotensin? Well according to the literature angiotensin increases blood pressure, and is a vasoconstrictor. It also reduces O2 saturation. It seems that the virus/gene therapy/and ACE2 receptor blockers all have the same exact symptoms in different degrees, because they all affect the body the same way.

The spike protein and virus and ACE2 receptor blockers all prevent angiotensin from breaking down leading to an excess of that hormone in the body and its associated effects.

If the body recognizes the spike protein and will create antibodies to eliminate it, does that mean that the body will also attack angiotensin molecules too and break them down before binding with ACE2 receptors? How were scientists able to ensure that this does/doesn't happen?

I apologize if my thoughts are too critical.

I woke up to a lot of posts about the crypto crash having something to do with hedgefunds and gme. But as someone who follows crypto closely on Twitter, its pretty obvious that the crash was followed from Elon musk spreading fud about bitcoin all weekend! Now for me it's not a problem that this is posted here, as it might actually have something to do with GME. BUT the fact that Elon fud is THE MAIN reason for the crash this weekend, is nowhere to be found in the 3 posts OR the associated comments on r/ss

I've seen theories here before, that Elon is purposefully manipulating crypto to fuk the hedgies, and I AM NOT dismissing that. I haven't looked into it, and I'm probably too smooth brained to understand it. But that is not my point with this post.

My point is, that is seems like users are purposefully ignoring facts, to boost the gme narrative and their confirmation bias.

I am all for confirmation bias, but I feel like the past few weeks, there has been stories here, where some facts are just plainly ignored.

Before you call me a shill, or Bulgarian boy. let me clarify. I am 100% sure the squeeze is gonna happen, and am, myself all in on gme since Jan.

I trust the amazing OG DD I've read in here throughout the months

Happy Thursday All,

I just wanted to share a thought that I for one do not mind critical thought counterpoints in the daily (even 'gasp' bearish sentiment) if it is not FUD spam.

The past few days I have see some swift downvote brigading when commenters wonder how high USD price or the "Ray Shio" can go.

So I'm sticking my neck out to say, I want to read honest counterpoint in the daily. u/Ethfinance is no maxi sub and that makes us special in this space!

Have a good one and enjoy these portfolio rocketing days :)

Edit: THANK YOU FOR THE GOLD!

Yesterday turned into a volatile day for this topic, before reaching for a pitchfork remember I wrote this before the capital gains stuff heated up, hahaha.

What the hell was that? why did we buy that bs? I can name 100s of women who could pick me up and throw me, but I'm supposed to believe that women are just "made weaker"?

This never flew by with me, and I would always get into car-groups and die inside when they would talk about how "women are so much happier in subjection, Jehovah knew what they wanted deep down. Women today are being lied to and tricked into thinking they want a different role other than subjection."

I'd say, "what about the women who aren't happy with that role?"

them: "well, they leave Jehovah and the truth!"

me: "so, how can you take a sample size of women who DO like subjection, and say 100% of women like subjection, while ignoring the majority of women OUTSIDE of the sample size who DON'T?"

like... this is statistics 101. you learn it in high school.

if you say "let's see if we should build a new DOG PARK in the city" but survey only DOG OWNERS and not NON-DOG OWNERS the results are going to be swayed towards building the park...

even as a PIMI this bothered me because of critical thinking skills...

Are smartphones and social media playing the big role in the decrease in critical thinking now a days. As the social media have decreased the attention span resulting in people only reading the headlines or spicy 2 liner news.

AI i.e. algorithm which these social media use are reducing the researching abilities of humans and in turn making them extreme believers without any questioning.

What do you guys think?

Serious question... Whether the Qult dies this year or turns into the next Scientology, we need massive changes to educate people how to factcheck and understand basic things like, fact, and what constitutes actual evidence and what is disinformation and what is outright propaganda.

Thoughts?

I don't have a problem with voicing your opinion or having a stand. To each his own.

What I observed is most people - even millenials who are apparently tech savvy cannot for the love of god differenciate an opinion piece from fact checked news articles.

dayachesi check the credibility of the source and learn critical thinking. Ecochamber lo undi undi asalu Naaku okadu share chesina article asalu source yenti, context yenti, and why it is happening.. Em lekunda yedo naluguru stories lu pettaru ani.. Just aa 5 slides on insta lo chusi nuvvu née stand theskoku.

Confirm news ledu ante uccha aapukuni verify ayye daaka undandi.

Aa city Inspector ki Em jarigindho message poye lopu video lu share chesi, yevado gottam gaadi tweets, posts ni source of news ani meeku easily available forwards ni, ready made trends ki padipothunnam.

Sare.. Neeku antha opika ledu Leda interest ledu ante it's absolutely OK not to indulge in political and governance. But don't have half baked opinions like this. It's dangerous and leads to loss of harmony in the society and life.

Anthe. Finish.

Most people think they possess the ability of critical thinking (and all those who disagree with them obviously do not). Some would simply answer "question everything".

But what is critical thinking? What are the tools to do it? And how to do it?

Are there any philosophical theories about it? I know, Heidegger for example talked about "learning to think" and so on and so on, but then he became a Nazi. So he was maybe wrong?