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Comment The misunderstanding of exponential growth and it' (Score 1) 137

People don't understand exponential growth.

We hear this all the time, and the implication is supposed to be that people underestimate the scale of the growth.

But there's a flip side to that coin when it comes to the actual real world: negative feedbacks. The real world doesn't have infinite resources for growth. The real world doesn't maintain a single growth rate until it overruns it's tiny glass test tube or whatever container they're using to scare you.

Comment Re: confirmation bias (Score 2) 202

Could also stem from training for certain types of tasks coming largely from male dominated content producers online. If men dominate a field, then their speech patterns dominate that field as well, and those speech patterns are likely to be perceived as more qualified.

If a doctor starts talking like a valley girl instead of right out of Hyderabad, some patients are going to become uncomfortable.

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