Real belief is actually moderately rare. People don’t generally believe stuff anymore that they might get laughed at about. Find one person who believes something they didn’t read on wikipedia and it’s a weird week.
I grant that most people may not hold too many real beliefs, in the normal sense of the word, but is this also generally true of scientists who are conducting studies? It feels like you’d need to belief that X was true in order for you to run a study in the first place..?
Or are we assuming that most scientists are just running off weakly held beliefs and just “doing things”?
(I really don’t know much about what the field might be like.)
Real belief is actually moderately rare. People don’t generally believe stuff anymore that they might get laughed at about. Find one person who believes something they didn’t read on wikipedia and it’s a weird week.
I grant that most people may not hold too many real beliefs, in the normal sense of the word, but is this also generally true of scientists who are conducting studies? It feels like you’d need to belief that X was true in order for you to run a study in the first place..?
Or are we assuming that most scientists are just running off weakly held beliefs and just “doing things”?
(I really don’t know much about what the field might be like.)