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Actually I find the exact opposite.
Go ahead and act like you know something.
State some dubious facts.
Factual sumbitches educate one's ass quick-like.
Helps me keep from getting my data confused. I know I can count on Redditors to keep me on track, at least as mainstream science is concerned.
Pedant? Hardly.
Comment by afkd at 06/07/2019 at 07:51 UTC
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Factual sumbitches educate one's ass quick-like.
I'd like to believe this, I really would, but from my perspective, in a couple different subjects I've studied thoroughly and work in professionally, I've noticed a huge amount of the most pedantic and snotty responses I've seen were outright wrong.
Many of the most obnoxious people I've seen be snotty and pedantic have little to no understanding of the subjects they're being the most obnoxious about--some of the most hilarious examples I've seen have been in AMAs with actual highly educated and experienced people, actual experts on a subject being outright contradicted by someone who obviously has no idea what they're talking about.
There is a disturbing large chunk of redditors who have no understanding of what they don't know.
Comment by Superfan234 at 05/07/2019 at 23:32 UTC
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Helps me keep from getting my data confused. I know I can count on Redditors to keep me on track, at least as mainstream science is concerned.
There are like 10 big subs that actually care about scientific method (r/askhistorians being the best example)
But r/worldnews, r/politics, r/pics, r/games, r/movies...All the biggest subs are filled with disinformation, propaganda, and straight up lies
you might become more ignorant just by start reading them