3/30/2024 - If All Your Research Comes From YouTube, No.

doing real research (not reading wikipedia and watching youtube videos, which have ridiculous amounts of untrue info) makes a lot of things abundantly clear about statistics and the errors in human nature.

if I want to know why a group of people behave similarly in comparison to another group, it would require a substantial amount of time to collect my findings. I think about this in terms of personal experiences we have that are similar to those in proximity to us. as we venture out into the world, we’re able to see that more people might have opposite or different experiences than we did. granted, there are some instances where certain people are experiencing similar things regardless of location, gender, sex, etc. different experiences don’t cancel each other out, they simply provide a broader scope of what people encounter.

there are tons of variables to consider but a huge part of human error is making definitive statements about entire groups of people based off of our individual experiences. without the knowledge and facts to support that an entire group consistently behaves in a particular way, we’re doing nothing more than leaning into our biases.