Would you say the majority of people on the sciforums, agree with each other, or disagree with each other?
On what? I am sure most agree on some things, others it is probably split somewhere down teh center, still others, people run the gambit of widely varying opinions.
Take 100 random sciforums people. Ask them about any issue with two answers, say "yes" or "no". Suppose 50 of them say "yes" and 50 say "no". Can we then say that the majority agree with each other, or not? After all, any 1 person agrees with 49 other people and disagrees with 50 other people...
This is really strange; how can we venture an opinion without an issue? eg are we talking about music movies racism what?
When answering this poll thingies... I assumed questions I try to answer in philophy fourms or something another. Or ethics or anytihng other than simple "yes" or "no": ansers.. I find myself arguing more about definitions than anything else.
no, i would not expect a 50/50 split on all issues what about the following issues: 1. murder 2. child exploitation 3. the prosecution of the innocent i would expect the above issues would produce more like 20/80 or maybe even 10/90 pro/con
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I wonder.. if I came up with my own theories about how the universe works that explains just as well as our current theories, only different, how many people would jump on board. Like, for the sake of arguement, my theory explained force using different equations (like, not F = ma) yet could derive new equations that equally explain energy and such. Does that make sense? Because when you think about it, most people just absorb whatever it is teachers tell students about science and mathematics like they are "correct..." and then when something challenges it, everyone gets in a hissy fit.
But sometimes a poster will leave me in a total blank! Also, often, there's the social politics involved, and that doesn't get descried as much on the surface: people can easily flip flop on a whim.
I would say that the majority disagree with their own understanding of each other. Whether or not they comprehend what the other had meant, that is another matter. Without the respect the rest is a waste of time. "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" (George Bernard Shaw) --- Ron.
Nice perplexity, My point of this was to see if you yourselves felt like more often people on sciforums agree with you or disagree with you?
They disagree with who they think I am. Most are no more than masks and shadows anyway, nobody to actually disagree with. To serve you with a writ for libel, where would I send it? --- Ron.
Bullshit. One doesn't come in here with predefined notions of people one never meets. One only ends up agreeing or disagreeing, degree by escalating degree, in the presence of and during the meantime!
Key: degree, by escalating degree. People here should really take more responsibility for their proxies.
What is that then if not a predefined notion of "one"? The tendency is for one to expect that everybody else is much the same as one is, and postings are interpreted accordingly, with psychological projections all over the place, presented like some kind of insight. Just how different we all really are is a lesson hard won, fully appreciated only with age and experience. --- Ron.
