40 Times People Came Across Such Confidently Wrong Statements, They Just Had To Share ‘Em
Some people are so wrong you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. And unfortunately, they are often also the ones that proclaim their ‘truths’ the loudest. That’s why their incorrect statements have to be refuted loudly as well, and what better way to reach a vast audience than turning to the good old internet?
Refuting false information is exactly what the ‘Confidently Incorrect’ subreddit is for. To be more exact, it’s “for those times when people are way too smug about their wrong answer”, according to their own description. Even though the community was started just a few years ago, in 2020, it has already amassed nearly 990k members, eager to show just how wrong—yet confident—some people can be. We’ve gathered some pretty colorful examples of that, so scroll down to find them on the list below and enjoy.
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Metric System At It Again
The sciences like astronomy and medicine use the metric system as a standard regardless of what country you're in (yes that includes the US). The metric system is all based on tens and it's very easy to convert between units of measurement, which reduces errors. Check any medication label, it's going to be in mg or micrograms
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Watching someone dig their own grave by being smug about their wrong answer can be surprisingly amusing. However, misinformation online is quite a prevalent problem in this day and age. And it’s likely that the internet is where such mistaken people find the false information in the first place.
Even if that’s not where they learn it, they might find supporting statements online nevertheless. Pew Research Center pointed out that, according to a 2016 study, people tend to seek information online that aligns with their views. (Even—or maybe especially so?—if they’re far from the truth.)
Pew Research Center also revealed that after the election in 2016, 64% of adults believed fake news stories can cause a great deal of confusion. However, as much as 23% of them admitted to have shared fabricated political stories themselves, whether by mistake or intentionally.
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According to Pew Research Center, the way fake news spreads is based on people’s primal quest for success and power, which is why it’s likely to persist in the future. Experts predict that, “manipulative actors will use new digital tools to take advantage of humans’ inbred preference for comfort and convenience and their craving for the answers they find in reinforcing echo chambers.”
Another enabling factor for the spread of misinformation online is the fast pace of technological change. It is believed that the rising speed, reach and efficiency of the internet, together with an abundance of online applications, can magnify the aforementioned human tendencies to the extent that false information crowds out reliable information.
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Synonyms…
Studies reveal that nearly 40% of kids believe everything they read on the internet. But children can’t be the only ones who take whatever they read online for a fact. It’s likely safe to assume that most of us have bought something we saw online that ended up being false information at least once.
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And He Was Correcting Somebody Else
A metaphor is comparing two things without using like or as. "Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks." Similes are comparing two things with like or as. "She is as dumb as a post." I hope this helped
But then why do we continue to believe the online world, you may wonder? Well, Forbes delved deeper into that and pointed out that looking for information online is easy—why go to a library when you have an array of webpages ready at your fingertips? Moreover, there are also no gatekeepers scanning and filtering information.
“Instead of browsing a small carefully curated set of high-quality informational streams, our online citizenry are thrown into an ocean of almost limitless low-quality information, forced to expend considerable effort to forage for the rare bit of accurate insight,” the article read in part.
It pointed out that nowadays, instead of turning to a competent person, equipped with all the necessary knowledge, people tend to do a quick online search and click on the first link, whether it’s reliable or not.
The Amount Of Likes Is Concerning
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Similarly to counting on the things online to be true, we tend to also believe the confident people around us. As a matter of fact, our brains are wired in a way that allows them to influence our beliefs.
According to a 2017 study, people base their beliefs on three main factors: personal experience, views of the majority, and views of the confident people. The study of 23 individuals revealed that the first two were positively linked to the reward system in our brain, responsible for how happy we are after choosing something. Yet, the third one—the opinion of confident people—was the only one to have an additional effect on that reward system.
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Hmm, I’m Not Sure That’s How That Works. Can Someone Let Me Know?
And it would actually be "over time" as well, with a space between the words.
Think Before You Comment
The instances from the ‘Confidently Incorrect’ subreddit are excellent examples of why one should never blindly trust everything they see online or learn from confident people. Or at least, why they should fact-check the information. Luckily, a 2022 survey revealed that as many as nine in ten Americans actually do.
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Typical, a religious (christian) person who doesn't know his own holy book.
That's because their minister discouraged him to actually READ the book. Just to believe what nonsense he preaches. In most countries, in order to be allowed to call yourself a minister, you must at least have a diploma in the field.
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As someone raised christian Im pretty sure that the bible said "man shall not lay with boy"
It's in Leviticus chapter 18. But Leviticus also prohibits eating pork and wearing mixed fabrics. Why aren't those literalists picketing clothing shops or butchers that sell bacon?
Because when Jesus died he came to make a new commandment. The reason Christians don't eat kosher foods like Jews is because of Romans 14 when it says we can eat all foods. Basically, when Jesus came he got rid of the old laws which required sacrifice and stiff and made new ones because we no longer need rituals and sacrifice to get to heaven we just need to believe in him and accept his ultimate sacrifice
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These people are also US Constitution humpers yet don't even know what it actually says, so it's not surprising they don't even know their own bible.
However it never says a woman should not lay with a woman I think so... I'm in the clear
Ye but it regularly refers to the human race in general as men but still includes women because otherwise the bible would be huge because everything would have to be repeated but swapped for women instead of men
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That's right after the commandment that says, "Thalt shall not sneeze while squeezing toothpaste!" isn't it?
The original text in the Bible was changed from 'man shall not lay with boys'. It was changed to fit the narrative of gays = bad.
Biblical rules apply to Christians ONLY. It's your holy book, not mine. (Mine is "The Princess Bride" which only has two commandments. I have never been involved in a land war in Asia, nor have I gone up against a Sicilian when death was on the line. My soul is clean. How's yours? Before you answer, go read Leviticus and see how many you've violated.)
Tell me you don't know sh*t about the 10 commandments, without telling me you don't know sh*t about the 10 commandments.
1. The Commandments do not have an Extended Director's Cut. 2. Put the fun back into fundamentalists like by asking where Adam and Eve's grandchildren came from exactly as the Bible only mentions 3 sons and if there were unnamed daughters isn't that incest?
It was definitely incest but they didn't really have much of a choice and I don't think there were any laws surrounding incest in those days
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This is just from people inflating the importance of something that offends them. They don’t care about being nice, they care about prosecuting people who are different to them
Agreed if adding that they also don't care about being right
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The word homosexual wasn’t even invented until the 1869s, much less put in the Bible https://um-insight.net/perspectives/has-“homosexual”-always-been-in-the-bible/
Fun fact: If you take all the verses beginning with "Thou shalt..." or "Thou shalt not..." as commandments, then there are 613 commandments in the Old Testament.
Not commandment, but listed elsewhere in Old Testament. I prefer the New Testament myself, Old Testament God is a mean son of b***h. And scary.
It is the very same god and you must accept it, otherwise you are a sinner, an atheist says /j
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You can always find the obviously gay men in the comments - they ALWAYS are the ones that hate gay ppl the most. Also, ppl who quote the Bible and then change the meaning to fit their own POV, are the same ppl who’ve never actually read the Bible which seems to be the criteria of so called Christians - worshipping a magic wizard high in the sky w/o reading the ridiculousness in the Bible too is the criteria for Conservatives.
This goes along with the people that claimed Jesus was going to the "Last Supper" to celebrate Easter.
Everyone go listen to Adam and Steve by Dorian Electra and be enlightened.
I don’t know either, I’m living in Dubbo atm and this is them to a tee 😂
ha. thats not on the ten commandments
there is something about not commiting adultery.... 10-Command...4b7c96.jpg 
the wording is closer to something like: "man shall not lay with another man as he would a woman" duh! there are some differences between man/woman sex and man/man sex
just because a person believes in a god doesn't mean all people believe in god your erroneous opinion may matter to you but to others it's bupkis at best..MYODB quit trying to force your "holier than thou" opinion on others 1 more thing tell this to the phedo priests/pastors/reverends etc they didn't get the memo lol
Hmmm. 10 years of Catholic school here & I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, YOU'RE A F*CKING MORON, you sorry assed homophobe.
These r also the people that blame Eve for all the evil in the world, when in reality, with out her (if u believe that stuff), none of us would b here. Had they not eaten the apple, they would not have been able to reproduce
So interesting, this. Ever since DT was elected to be POTUS, that commandment about not coveting another man's wife, is just so irrelevant now to supposed "Christians". The kicker is, breaking the commandment doesn't involve bedding anyone. Just lusting after her is all it takes.
I love these faux religionistas who can't even be bothered to get their cherry picked Bible quotes right when trying to claim their bigotry is acceptable, because 'GoD sAyS sO!'
No, that is not one of the ten commandments as written my the finger of God on 2 stone tablets. Read the book of Leviticus. This book contains ALL of God's many more than ten commandments. the word HOMOSEXUAL is a recently coined word, late 19 th early Twentieth century. So, when people say that the Bible does not contain the word HOMOSEXUAL, they are correct. However, in Leviticus, God strictly prohibited man from lying with another man as with a woman, and a woman was prohibited from lying with another woman as with aan So God strictly forbade sex between 2 men and between 2 women
God made Lilith and Eve, though, so female homosexuality is apparently fine.
Good grief. How hard is it to google the 10 commandments and see its not there. That law is in Leviticus....the same one that says you can't eat lobster, crab and bacon, but I bet they will jump through hoops to say it doesn't apply. Bonus; that law doesn't apply to women...oops.
Corinthians A' 6:9. In the original Greek, so that those who will be offended can pretend they are lazy or they do not understand. (But, do look it up, since you mentioned it, although the English translations are all f****d up.) Ή μήπως δεν ξέρετε ότι άνθρωποι άδικοι δε θα έχουν θέση στη βασιλεία του Θεού; Μην έχετε αυταπάτες· στη βασιλεία του Θεού δε θα έχουν θέση ούτε πόρνοι ούτε ειδωλολάτρες ούτε μοιχοί ούτε θηλυπρεπείς ούτε αρσενοκοίτες... The word you are looking for is "αρσενοκοίτες" which is translated as "men who have sex with men" (The New International Version), or "abusers of themselves" (!!!) (King James), or "[those who] practice homosexuality" (New Living Translation), "sodomites"(New King James), etc. etc.
A certain quote from 'Hellsing Ultimate Abridged' springs to mind.
The Old Testament describes the sinful world that made God send his only son to correct. Just for fun I'll give the Gospels a little credence, but the rest of the New Testament was written by corporate (mega)church interests, not God, so there's nothing there either.
There wee 3,712 more tablets. But they were etched by lawyers. Coulda been in the small print.
The aforementioned survey also revealed what social media platforms Americans trust the least with Facebook taking the lead—42% of the surveyed users said they frequently see debatable content on it. It was followed by TikTok and Twitter with 35% and 32% people respectively stating the same about them.
Posts that end up on the ‘Confidently Incorrect’ subreddit come from all sorts of social media platforms, which is why there’s always new content for its members to enjoy. If you’re done with all the examples of this list and would love to see more, check out our previous editions of people being smug about their wrong answers here, here, here, and here.
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i've never seen star wars and i don't know who natalie portman is but i know she's in it
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When did the plants go on strike? I missed that news flash.
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Oh yes I remember standing in that long line in 1960 to get my Monkey vaccine in a sugar cube. Started loving bananas that day.
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The sad part is more and more of these morons are going out into the world thanks to America's terrible education, especially here in the south. My city is planning on spending 2 billion dollars on an upgrade to the football stadium while I can't find a non private school for my middle schooler that isn't a F school.
Right now in Florida middle school students are to be taught that slaves, in a way, had been taught life skills while enslaved.
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Most of these people are lost causes. There is no arguing or reasoning with stupid. Hallmarks of intelligence are considering new information, critical thinking, research, admitting when you don't know something and the willingness to learn. Some people just cannot be helped.
Felt like when I once read way too long about what Mr. Trump did or said, wanted to stop but somehow couldn´t ...
Has anyone seen Foxxy for recently? I haven't seen her comments very often. Hope she is ok
I'm delighted that almost all of these are real examples of moronic thought, rather than just a minor brain malfunction or just an unpopular viewpoint.
I have little to no idea what I've been reading, all I do know it that I am very afraid.
Never forget that half of the population of the world are below average. They have access to libraries, the internet, book shops, audio books, the wisdom of their elders and yet they stubbornly remain right there in the bottom half 😂
The sad part is more and more of these morons are going out into the world thanks to America's terrible education, especially here in the south. My city is planning on spending 2 billion dollars on an upgrade to the football stadium while I can't find a non private school for my middle schooler that isn't a F school.
Right now in Florida middle school students are to be taught that slaves, in a way, had been taught life skills while enslaved.
Load More Replies... Most of these people are lost causes. There is no arguing or reasoning with stupid. Hallmarks of intelligence are considering new information, critical thinking, research, admitting when you don't know something and the willingness to learn. Some people just cannot be helped.
Felt like when I once read way too long about what Mr. Trump did or said, wanted to stop but somehow couldn´t ...
Has anyone seen Foxxy for recently? I haven't seen her comments very often. Hope she is ok
I'm delighted that almost all of these are real examples of moronic thought, rather than just a minor brain malfunction or just an unpopular viewpoint.
I have little to no idea what I've been reading, all I do know it that I am very afraid.
Never forget that half of the population of the world are below average. They have access to libraries, the internet, book shops, audio books, the wisdom of their elders and yet they stubbornly remain right there in the bottom half 😂
