I dunno, I’m 26 and I’ve been getting more and more scientifically conservative as of the last 10 years. Excluding the topics of intense interest, of course, but in vast majority of those I tend to end up even more conservative as I learn why the scientists in the field have priors they have, and so i understand why there is apparently strong ‘prejudice’ among scientists, aka, priors. Yes, true, this ‘prejudice’ ends up wrong now and then, but the public has a cherry picked selection of when it ended wrong, without thousands times the cases where the ‘prejudice’ was right, and it is a very correct prior overall. Note: this absolutely doesn’t apply to the consensus among non-scientists, which includes proto-sciences, and engineer ‘consensus’.
Well, that goes more for the unsettled, like popular debates, upcoming new theories, and such. I always loved settled science i guess, for it being actually something to learn reliably from. I just had more ‘neutral’ attitude towards much of unsettled. I am glad about publication of neutrinos going at FTL though; that was cool thing they published it, rather than just hid it under the rug until they find the wiring problem; that creates bias otherwise.
I dunno, I’m 26 and I’ve been getting more and more scientifically conservative as of the last 10 years. Excluding the topics of intense interest, of course, but in vast majority of those I tend to end up even more conservative as I learn why the scientists in the field have priors they have, and so i understand why there is apparently strong ‘prejudice’ among scientists, aka, priors. Yes, true, this ‘prejudice’ ends up wrong now and then, but the public has a cherry picked selection of when it ended wrong, without thousands times the cases where the ‘prejudice’ was right, and it is a very correct prior overall. Note: this absolutely doesn’t apply to the consensus among non-scientists, which includes proto-sciences, and engineer ‘consensus’.
i.e., you’re coming to appreciate the beauty of settled science.
Well, that goes more for the unsettled, like popular debates, upcoming new theories, and such. I always loved settled science i guess, for it being actually something to learn reliably from. I just had more ‘neutral’ attitude towards much of unsettled. I am glad about publication of neutrinos going at FTL though; that was cool thing they published it, rather than just hid it under the rug until they find the wiring problem; that creates bias otherwise.
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