please empty your brain below
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I invite you to comment on today's post without being unnecessarily specific.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.08.24 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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You're not wrong
Bob L-S | 05.08.24 - 7:23 a.m. | #
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I'm sorry, on this occasion you are wrong, plain wrong.
I have no idea what piqued your nerve to prompt you to write like this, and I know that others will have different reasons for knowing that you are wrong too.
However, in saying all that I have just realised that I may have been wrong myself. We all make mistakes. Sorry.
Ken | 05.08.24 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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Format: "obligatory"
XKCD link: xkcd.com/386
jpmac | 05.08.24 - 7:50 a.m. | #
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Life can be very confusing - what we all agreed was very wrong in our lifetime is now widely celebrated as being right. Our past enemies are now our friends and vice versa. What we all believed in is now ridiculed as no more than equivalent to a child's fantasy. Our firm foundations turned out to be built on sand and we turned to whatever was seen as fashionable at the time so we were not laughed at for being behind the times.
If we are honest with ourselves we tend to be like sheep following the crowd not wanting to be seen as out of step with whatever influencers in society pronounce as what is acceptable or not.
gruntbuggly | 05.08.24 - 7:54 a.m. | #
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I could be wrong, I could be right. I could be black, I could be white.
Johnny | 05.08.24 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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Dan Williams at the University of Sussex has a possibly relevant recent blog post on “Why do people believe true things”.
Roger Depledge | 05.08.24 - 7:59 a.m. | #
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I believe Einstein made an important point regarding this: „Two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity; and I am not sure about the Universe.“
Keith the Kraut | 05.08.24 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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The scientist Wolfgang Pauli, after whom the exclusion principle was named, described another physicist’s (bad) work as “not even wrong” (“nicht einmal falsch”).
Andrew | 05.08.24 - 8:15 a.m. | #
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If facts were facts we wouldn't have so many lawyers.
Still Anon | 05.08.24 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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For some reason it's often easier to lie and spread that lie than it is by trying to spread the truth. Maybe that's partially why we're all wrong.
All Over 2a | Homepage | 05.08.24 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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Read the article on Wikipedia called "List of cognitive biases", and you will realise how many different ways people can be wrong and why.
The reason why people are wrong are because human group dynamics are stronger than facts, because many facts are misinterpreted or aren't facts at all, because people are more comfortable with emotions than facts, because people have far more sources of information and disinformation, and many of those sources force them towards extremism.
We are more divided than ever and discourse has degenerated to playground levels, trading insults rather than actually talking to each other. Disagree with people and suddenly you are an ist or a phobe, and then you are cancelled, or arrested.
Ask yourself why you believe something and what benefit other people gain from you believing something. Do some research and you may be surprised to find that you are wrong.
Jimbo | 05.08.24 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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This made me a bit frustrated - it all felt a bit two dimensional and preachy. Luckily Roger Depledge has linked an excellent article by Dan Williams that opens up the issues.
Blue Witch | 05.08.24 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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Perhaps we should spend more time looking at what 'we' got wrong and 'they' got right?
popartist | 05.08.24 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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Chat GPT is getting quite good.
Paul Parkinson | 05.08.24 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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Someone has already used the line, You're not wrong, so I won't.
While the older I become and see more shades of grey in life, I also see more wrongness.
Andrew | Homepage | 05.08.24 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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I felt like printing out today's post and giving it to a neighbour of mine, who will bore for England on any topic, invariably displaying a depressing degree of negative prejudice.
But, on reflection, I won't, as it would release a fresh surge of invective.
Petras409 | 05.08.24 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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I noticed that you avoided any mention of religion.
kev | 05.08.24 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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This post contains 51 words including "wrong", specifically:
34 wrong
14 wrongness
2 wrong'un
1 wrongs
TW | 05.08.24 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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Is there even such a thing as right or wrong. All rights are wrong sometimes and all wrongs too. The older I get I just wish they'd all shut up and get on with living and loving.
Caroline | 05.08.24 - 10:45 a.m. | #
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Have you ever changed your mind about something important where once you thought you were absolutely right and now you know to be wrong? What changed your mind? I hold onto my "wrongness" because it is part of who I am and if I change my mind that has all sorts of unpleasant consequences for my image of myself.
Oh, and philosophy ought to be a compulsory subject on the national curriculum!
south london lad | 05.08.24 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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I agree with Jimbo
Perhaps for a more balanced view of local and world events, for every minute spent on delivering a negative news item, the media should devote an equal number of minutes on positive, affirming stories from the same general area.
Cornish Cockney | 05.08.24 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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It gets rarer and rarer each year for people to state that they aren’t sure if they are right, or that they “think” they might be right. Somehow qualifying a view has turned into a sign of weakness.
And worse still, there is an utter lack of shame when someone is demonstrably proved to be wrong. No shame, and no apology. It’s not their fault that they were wrong, it’s your fault.
Max von Sydow | 05.08.24 - 12:02 p.m. | #
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The pursuit of science is built on being wrong. Theories are created that are assumed correct until they are proved wrong (Sometimes never, sometimes many years later). When this happens new theories (and thus correctness) are required.
Today many science theories are deemed not acceptable to question - 'settled science' is a dangerous term imho.
Gazza | 05.08.24 - 2:20 p.m. | #
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I apologise for the wrong bits.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.08.24 - 11:43 p.m. | #
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....and I'm sorry that I didn't read this until today.
John | 06.08.24 - 1:50 p.m. | #
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Me too John! The truth doesn’t seem to be that important to a depressingly large percentage of people.
Uncertainty is underrated. Always keep an open mind. And call out wrongness!
Taffy | 08.08.24 - 3:54 p.m. | #
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