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Nate Silver on the 4 types of people who weirdly dismiss any “good” covid19 news
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:29 am
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:29 am
quote:
I think there are kind of 4 camps:
1) People with poor news consumption habits, e.g. too much cable, which tends to emphasize bad news and isn't very numerate.
2) People who don't want to get others' hopes up.
3) People for whom pessimism is a coping mechanism.
4) People who are bought into a narrative of American institutions failing.
The "tell" that someone is in category 4 is that that they tend to emphasize how the US is doing uniquely poorly compared to, say, Europe, when that just objectively isn't true.
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There are a few of these folks on this board. Any sort of good news or positive trends you bring up are dismissed. An example is rocket31. He came into every thread I started on Italian curve flattening and insisted it wasn’t getting better.
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Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:30 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Unknown_Poster and Oweo are two
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:31 am to WaydownSouth
quote:More a combination of 1 and 3, IMO.
Unknown_Poster and Oweo are two
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:32 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
He should have added
"5. Sure, the virus numbers are getting better but in a week we'll all be living under the interstate and eating our young to survive."
"5. Sure, the virus numbers are getting better but in a week we'll all be living under the interstate and eating our young to survive."
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:33 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Narrative first, Truth later ( maybe).
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:33 am to NawlinsTiger9
quote:
"5. Sure, the virus numbers are getting better but in a week we'll all be living under the interstate and eating our young to survive."
- Scruffy
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:33 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
He came into every thread I started on Italian curve flattening and insisted it wasn’t getting better.
Do you need a Kleenex?
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:33 am to WaydownSouth
quote:
Unknown_Poster and Oweo are two
Owe is just a naive rube. Unknown is praying for failure.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:35 am to Salmon
quote:Accurate, except for the timeline.
5. Sure, the virus numbers are getting better but in a week we'll all be living under the interstate and eating our young to survive.
One week is too soon.
More like two weeks.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:35 am to WaydownSouth
quote:
Unknown_Poster
He just wants millions to die to hurt Trump. That and he is a simpleton.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:38 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
4) People who are bought into a narrative of American institutions failing.
Go to the polifrick board. Those low foreheads get so creamy over "American institutions failing" they stick to the frickin' sofa. They believe every goddamn American institution we have has failed.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:40 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
There are also preppers who truly hope this virus is the event that will finally put them at the top of the food chain.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:42 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
The "tell" that someone is in category 4 is that that they tend to emphasize how the US is doing uniquely poorly compared to, say, Europe, when that just objectively isn't true.
Eh. It's easier than that. They shoehorn Trump in every conversation possible. Then you have the other side who calls everyone a liberal and just makes it worse.
"America is failing because of Trump!"
"No, America is failing because of liberal pussies like you!"
Around and around we go.
This post was edited on 4/8/20 at 11:44 am
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:43 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
6) People that think the government is going to quickly make them whole for any loss of income so the longer the process plays out, the more free paid vacation!
Reality is starting to hit on that score, though, so the numbers are dropping.
7) People that, for whatever reason, seem to be happy that everything is shut down and people are worried.
People in this category probably are pretty miserable in every day life and are thrilled that the rest of us "get to live in their world", so to speak.
8) Authoritarians.
Self-explanatory. Not only the current events but the public's general unconditional and unquestioning acceptance has made this whole thing like Super Christmas for them.
Reality is starting to hit on that score, though, so the numbers are dropping.
7) People that, for whatever reason, seem to be happy that everything is shut down and people are worried.
People in this category probably are pretty miserable in every day life and are thrilled that the rest of us "get to live in their world", so to speak.
8) Authoritarians.
Self-explanatory. Not only the current events but the public's general unconditional and unquestioning acceptance has made this whole thing like Super Christmas for them.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:44 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
There’s also people sitting at home in a robe making full pay
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:44 am to RB10
quote:
"America is failing because of Trump!"
"No, America is failing because of liberal pussies like you!"
Around and around we go.
What a time to be alive
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:46 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
1) People with poor news consumption habits, e.g. too much cable, which tends to emphasize bad news and isn't very numerate.
2) People who don't want to get others' hopes up.
3) People for whom pessimism is a coping mechanism.
4) People who are bought into a narrative of American institutions failing.
I think this is a good list.
I chuckle at group 3. They have to lie to themselves because they are unable to handle disappointment or negative reality. You see it all the time.
Groups 1 and 4 encompass democrats.
This post was edited on 4/8/20 at 11:47 am
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:46 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:
Owe is just a naive rube
His analogies during this have been hilarious
Posted on 4/8/20 at 11:51 am to Walking the Earth
quote:
8) Authoritarians.
Self-explanatory. Not only the current events but the public's general unconditional and unquestioning acceptance has made this whole thing like Super Christmas for them.
Posted on 4/8/20 at 12:17 pm to Pandy Fackler
quote:
Go to the polifrick board. Those low foreheads get so creamy over "American institutions failing" they stick to the frickin' sofa. They believe every goddamn American institution we have has failed.
Same people who bow profusely at the waitstaff at Trey Yuen.
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