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When you study or work in a certain field, everything about it starts becoming clearer and clearer each day, until it becomes somewhat obvious. (A popular theory says it takes roughly 10,000 hours to become an expert at something.) However, for those who have nothing to do with it, even the simplest of concepts might seem all Greek.

Redditor ‘StaleTheBread’ recently started a discussion about it, when they asked fellow netizens what are some simple concepts from their field of study that an average person doesn’t seem to understand. The question was answered by people from all sorts of backgrounds, who covered everything from communication to meteorology; so if you’re interested in learning more about different fields of study, scroll down to find more of their answers on the list below.

#1

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Vaccines don’t cause autism.

Vaccines don’t put a protective bubble around you guaranteeing you will never fall ill again.

Vaccines don’t contain microchips and nanobots.

Vaccines DO lessen the severity of infectious disease and shorten the length of illness.

Vaccines prime your immune system to fight the disease using its natural functions.

Vaccines require over 95% coverage in the population to protect vulnerable people who can’t be vaccinated.

Vaccines save lives.

Get your flu shot.

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Verena
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In essence, contrieving the sickness and surviving it "all natural" is the same concept as getting vaccinated. The big plus of the latter is, that it is a safe and controlled procedure, which is more comfortable.

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Most of what we call mental disorders in the DSM 5 would disappear from the adult population if we somehow magically eliminated early childhood trauma, neglect, and abuse

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Freedom of speech only protects you from government, not private, action and is always subject to “time, place and manner” restrictions. It also doesn’t protect you from the social or economic consequences of saying mean, crazy or racist s**t.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an Australian, I get the impression from regularly browsing numerous US-based websites that this distinction is lost on many Americans

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Communication isn't what you're saying. It's what the other person is understanding.

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#5

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Anthrozoology MSc. We need to be kinder to animals.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The majority of us truly try to do exactly that. It’s the minority of callous, cold, and cruel m***********s who need to be taken out back and beaten black and blue who are the perpetrators of animal abuse. I’m usually a pretty laid back, live and let live person, but cruelty to the smaller and weaker just makes me see red and want to exact eye for an eye type revenge on people like that. Everyone has their trigger for anger and desire to exact Old Testament style biblical revenge (and I’m not even religious), and cruelty is mine.

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#6

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Correlation is not causation.

Just because 2 things change together doesn't mean one causes the other. For example ice creams sales and drowning deaths are correlated. It could mean possibly 1) eating ice cream cause people to drown 2) when people drown the survivors eat ice cream to make themselves feel better 3) both happen more often in the summer time 4+)...other possibilities.

This is used ALL the time when trying to push anti-science agendas.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always see police cars near car accidents, so police cars must cause car accidents! 🤪

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#7

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Yelling back at someone who is already agitated (crying, shaking, screaming) will not deescalate them. (My expertise is crisis)

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#8

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Humans didn't evolve from chimpanzees. Chimpanzees are our nearest living relative species. Humans and chimpanzees both evolved from the same ancient species, which no longer exists in that form but does still exist in the form of humans and chimpanzees. The fact that chimpanzees still exist does not disprove that humans evolved from other apes.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Humans and chimpanzees both evolved from Sahelanthropus tchadensis in Africa.

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#9

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study There is no such thing as not having an accent. Every human who speaks has an accent. And there is no such thing as a “neutral accent”.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Travelling all over Australia, we all have different accents and Melbourne people can pick my qld accent so quick 😂

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#10

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Many people use drugs due to trauma. The culture surrounding drugs perpetuates the trauma. Even if someone did not start out using drugs due to trauma, they most often will acquire it due to the nature of drug use, the circumstances surrounding it, and how people who use drugs are often targets of violence, especially youth and women.

This is not to excuse behavior or actions, this is just a gentle reminder that your sister/brother/cousin whatever who says they were "hurt" by a relative, and they are dismissed and called a liar, only because they are a drug user? It's most likely they are a drug user specifically because they were hurt.

It is a natural human reaction to want to avoid pain or minimize it, even emotional pain. Yes watching fentanyl zombies sucks a*s, yes having meth addicts screaming at demons is weird AF but it is never as easy as someone just stopping using. To successfully do that they need not only to want it, but to deal with lived trauma, and to have support systems in place to be successful.

And even what I am saying here is a gross oversimplification.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very true. I struggled with addiction, and through having great support, and being stubborn, I made it through those dark days and into the sun. It was hard, but very much worth the effort.

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#12

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study 911 dispatch, when you call me and I ask you questions, I don’t need a life story for each one. A simple yes or no will suffice. If it doesn’t, I will ask you to clarify.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for doing what you do. I've had to call 9-1-1 a few times, and I'm very grateful for folks like you. Good luck and blessed be!

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#13

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Blind people having vision. Only something like 10% see nothing (not black—*nothing.*) The rest all have varying degrees of vision impairment, all for different reasons. A lot of our students have light perception at the very least. People are always surprised by that.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wondering how nothing looks when it is not black. Though "looks" is of course the wrong term... Just asking. When there is some light perception, I can imagine, one noticing some dark and light. Yet, when there is no perception of light... just dark.. how does thet not translate to black ?

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#14

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study People are not made to live forever and modern medicine, while amazing, cannot make miracles happen. So many times we have a patient who is on a ventilator and unable to be taken off. Plus their kidneys are shot and they are requiring continuous bedside dialysis. Plus their heart is failing and they are on 2-4 continuous infusions of medication to make it function properly and prevent circulatory collapse. That is multi-system organ failure. Even if we can get one system back, the chances of a meaningful recovery are very slim. If Iturn off any of my machines or a bag of one of their meds runs dry they’re gonna die….because they are on a huge amount of life support, but the family still will be thinking they’re gonna walk and talk out of the hospital.

And, even if they do live, a lot of them are going to get a trach and feeding tube and then go on to live the rest of their lives in a facility where they still need 24hr care. Where they may or may not still be ventilator dependent. Where they likely cannot speak and definitely cannot eat or drink anything by mouth. Some will never, for the rest of their lives be able to safely eat or drink by mouth again. Many will be incontinent and bedbound and likely never regain their strength back. If you ever have a family member in the ICU on life support think long and hard about it because a lot of what we do to sustain life is literal torture.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The vow of doctors to always try to save a life and do everything in their power (or whatever it is), is sooo outdated. An animal in pain is being put out of its misery. Yet for humans, in many places there are no standards for insufferable misery and wanting to put an end to it is criminal.

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#15

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Orthodontist here. Making braces “tighter” DOES NOT make the teeth move faster. Have patients daily asking me to make the brace even tighter because they can “take it” and finish faster as a result.

Teeth move quickest and most efficiently with very low, sustained force application.

It’s like trying to get yourself out of quicksand - yanking with all your might leaves you in exactly the same place but slow, continuous gently force gets you to where you want to go.

Usually after explaining this, they shrug as if I’m trying to pull one over on them and proceed to ask me to make it tighter next time.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have heard of some people overdosing on simple Panadol thinking if 2 tablets start working in 30mins then 4 tablets would start working in 15 mins... and 8 tablets ....

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Librarian here - if you want your library to have new books, you must be prepared to get rid of the same amount of old books.

Because I have to dispose of books secretly, as the public just don't seem to realise that we can't house a collection that grows by 10s or 100s of thousands of books every year.

(For the pedantic, I said "amount" rather than "number" for a reason - books and archives are commonly measured in linear meters or kilometers, as that tells us how much storage space is required.)

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our local library usually sells off the old books cheaply.

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Jennik
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same in my country. I hoover them up. I'm trying to cut back but I've only got about 20,000 books and clearly need a few more... I am trying to send a few out the other direction - I've got 27 boxes of books sorted out to feed into local Little Free Libraries.

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Jack Burton
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because of that my local library do not take gifts anymore... I was so happy to give some books for free and gain space at home. Now i use special places in my city parks. (but i always comeback with another book ^^).

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François Carré
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We get such donation proposals at least once a month where I work. And we have to decline them all. We lack room and it's hard enough to get rid of our own books already.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Discarded books should be put into Little Free Libraries, placed into "book deserts" (i.e. places with bad public transit and people can't travel to libraries easily). [ https://littlefreelibrary.org/ ]

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes and no. Most libraries can and should rotate their collections regularly. However, national, state, regional, and provinincial libraries need to ponder their decisions to let go of print items, as they may never be digitized and will thus be lost forever to future generations. What seems like an outdated map tp one person could help someone 200 years from now find their family homestead or grave site. The annual city street guides which were published until the mid twentieth century seem irrelevant today, but is invaluable if you are trying how someone changed occupations during their lives and who they shared a house with. One man's junk is another man's treasure. Does saving everything take up an impossible amount of space? Of course. The Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore has a hidden (to the public) floor in between each floor to house the overflow. The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. has numerous warehouses offsite to store the overflow. Packrat libraries rule!

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A huge portion of what’s removed should be drawn from books that were bought in large quantities when they were released but are no longer heavily in demand. Most readers don’t mind so much that libraries have to get rid of books when the overall selection isn’t being reduced, just the number of copies available. (Oh, and publishers restricting access to ebooks is evil.)

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and with the ferver that books are being banned in the U.S., this is only going to increase the amount

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You know the banned books are only in schools right? They don't ban books for the general public

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love library book sales! I've often purchased books I am missing from a series or favorite author, for a fraction of the cost.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our library has an annual sale. Sometimes it includes older copies of some books, rarely it is all copies of a book.The money goes to buy new books and rebind the oldie but goodies.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some libraries are better at selecting their "rejects" than others. I went to a college library book sale once and came away with a box filled with leather-bound volumes of Goethe in classic German script, several similar volumes of Victor Hugo, and several nice Mark Twain books missing from my collection. All for twenty-five cents each. Apparently, they made their selections based on how freuently the books had been checked out.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love all of this, but I guarantee that you lost the majority of the audience reading this when you typed "pedantic". Also, kudos on pedantic.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yea....Nope. I don't believe that you dispose of books. You have a stupid local government if your not selling them off to help raise funds.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been to library book sales for decades. About 90% of what's there is trash. Old romance novels or technical books from the 1950s aren't even worth the dime they ask. Just dump them (because they can't be recycled unless you strip the cover and spine first.)

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The main branch of our local library system has a little bookstore by the entrance where you can buy the old books dirt cheap. And the funds help keep local programs going.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I don't have someone to give them away to, I always drop my used books in the library return. They remainder books for sale anyway, so I figure a few extra can only help earn a little extra.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never thought of this before and it makes perfect sense but my heart hurts a little 😕

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Gordon MacDiarmid
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please auction them off and accept donations. Bless you for being a Librarian! I grew up before the Internet (Spoilers) and spent 1/2 my life in libraries.

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François Carré
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm doing this right now. In our French librarian jargon we call it "désherbage" (weeding). And while we can get rid of many books for obvious and practical reasons (obsolete, fallen into oblivion or physically destroyed), in other cases some real dilemma is involved in the process. Books are not ordinary objects, they contain knowledge and most of the time a peculiar, somehow unique vision of the world. It is never completely innocuous to get rid of them.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lots will let you suggest books to buy, then let you be the first person to borrow them :D

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#17

“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study My patients are 95% "why would you call an ambulance for this" and 5% "why the f**k didn't you call an ambulance for this sooner"

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the reason why these 5% waited so long may have something to do with being told repeatedly about the 95%. Not a good idea to publicly shame the 95%.

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study I studied experimental psychology:
1) your memory is very unreliable and it is very easy to 'remember' things that never happened.
2) eye witnesses are also very unreliable because of the memory thing but also because our senses are not reliable.


In essence people are not computers :)

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And that is scary if you are in court and have eye witnesses swear you were at the scene of the crime when you know you weren't.

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Most dogs and cats are the way they are, because you are the way you are.

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study There's two main reasons that when you cook a restaurant favorite at home it doesn't taste as good:

1. The person who made the dish used all of the things your doctor told you to avoid. It's full of butter and salt and all that good stuff. When you substitute healthy options it doesn't taste as good. Or at least it doesn't taste the same.

2. The people who made your dish have done it hundreds of times. Or thousands of times. You can get very good at a dish cooking it at home for yourself, but mastering a dish takes a kind of repetition that is rarely seen outside of a professional kitchen.

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study A deep breath presses the diaphragm onto the intestines. Timing meals is important in opera because proper breath support can push out turds. You have to perfectly time your meals because diaphragmatic breathing will sometimes push out a turd mid performance.

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study How GMOs are not different from any other plants/animals. And what you "know" about them is 95% green propaganda: either a straight lie or some half-truth so distorted and taken out of context, that it is misinformation at best.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

GMOs bad reputation is largely because it is mainly chosen / used / forced on us by Monsanto/capitalism purely for gross profit & not for any ecological considerations. This also results in using GMO that is not sufficiently tested for long-term effects on the environment. Again it's not the tool its the way it's been used, aggressively for excessive profit.

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study I'm a plumber, people don't understand what can and can't go down a toilet.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

#1, #2, and plain old toilet tissue. (If #2 gets stuck, well, there’s apparently a poop knife for that.)

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Physics teacher: Scientific literacy is pretty poor in general.

* Lots of people struggle to interpret a graph correctly

* Lots of people struggle to distinguish between variables (like velocity vs acceleration). This is perhaps more niche for science education than the real world, but you'd be amazed how many people think skydivers stop completely or even shoot upwards when they open their chutes!

* Lots of people don't appreciate the difference between an absolute change (+10) and a proportional change (+10%). This has huge repercussions for all sorts of real world problems, like their savings for retirement, house price or debt.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And exponentials. 3E10 and 3E12 are not anywhere near close! One is 100 times larger than the other!

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study This is a little high level but I will try to explain.

When you call me for help, I ask you 'are you already logged into your account' and you are sitting on the website front page having forgotten your password, the answer is *not* "yes."

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study The fact that something is a social construct doesn't mean it doesn't exist, doesn't matter, or doesn't have an impact, nor does it mean that it can be changed w***y nilly.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The vast majority of our interactions are a social construct, not?

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study In meteorology: A 30% chance of rain. We are 100% confident that 30% of the area will see rain on that day.

Not 30% chance of it raining

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thought it means that on 30% of the days with the exact same conditions it was raining in the past. And how do you specify "area"? The forecast does not mention grid size.

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study People who work with sound , use their ears! You don't see their ears working. Sound engineers don't do much physically during shows because they are listening...intently. Which brings me onto listening. People who work in music listen to music in a far deeper and technical way than the average Jo!

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True - my husband is a mixing engineer and he can spend three hours adjusting sounds I’m barely aware of. I like to annoy him now by popping into his studio and going ‘ooh, are you sure about that 4K?’ or ‘what’s going on with that snare, dude?’

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“Not 30% Chance Of It Raining”: Simple Concepts Unknown To People Outside These Fields Of Study Essential oils are not important oils

Breakthroughs achieved in laboratorium doesn't mean that it can be mass produced the next day. More often than not, things fail in scaling up

No, we can't live 100% oil free. You need polymers for, well, everything. You can choose to get those from oil drilling or from rainforest. Pick your poison.

Biodegradable doesn't mean it will completely degrade the next day. Things will still pile up before it degrades. Use less instead.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To explain: "Essential" means "having the essence of," not "critically important."

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