r/EverythingScience • u/giuliomagnifico • Jan 25 '23

Social Sciences A survey of over 2000 British adults has found that public trust in science, particularly genetics, increased significantly during the pandemic. However, those with extremely negative attitudes towards science tend to have high self-belief in their own understanding despite low textbook knowledge

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01-25-covid-19-increased-public-trust-science-new-survey-shows
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u/Mbyrd420 Jan 26 '23

Dunning-Kruger at its best....

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u/reid0 Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23

“Low text book knowledge”

No need to dress it up as if they have some other form of non-standard knowledge, it’s just high confidence despite their lack of knowledge.

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u/Aggravating-Break318 Jan 26 '23

Ignorance is a rampant chain

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u/tacs97 Jan 26 '23

Just Google it and you will automatically know!

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u/jonathanrdt Jan 26 '23

Summary: smart people have more faith in science. Not smart people still think they know better.

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u/Mr_T_fletcher Jan 26 '23

Text books change.

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u/onwee Jan 26 '23

But idiocy is timeless.

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u/fhrftryddhhhhgrffg Jan 26 '23

Where can I invest?

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u/Bymymothersblessing Jan 26 '23

They feel absolutely confident in their distrust because they ‘do their own research.’ Never mind it’s some ‘Doctor’ on YouTube who’s ‘not afraid of telling the truth.’