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15245950 No.15245950 [Reply] [Original]

What good is science out reach and education if most people cannot understand it because of biological factors (i.e. their intelligence)?
Has making education more accessible and providing resources on the internet made the average person or internet user more knowledgeable or intelligent?
I think we have seen the opposite occur.

>> No.15245964

>>15245950
average person aka 100 iq Joe who is tens of thousands of dollars in debt probably watches tiktok before bed and bitches about his terrible job and how life is unfair.
average people just don't seek knowledge.

>> No.15245973

>>15245950
People can understand things they otherwise wouldn't be able to if someone didn't explain it on easy mode. Maybe that means dumber people can learn more now, seem smarter, and then not be able to contribute anything new. But so many experts communicate in the most retarded way possible, so you have to re-prove everything for them just to understand what they did. Why not just speed up the process and show us step by step how you got your results? We are in an era where one group puts out a paper, and everyone who reads it needs to takes hours to independently re-derive the equations and correct all the small mistakes in the paper because the authors couldn't just show how they did it or take the time to edit their typos after publication. Its ridiculous and is slowing research down.

>> No.15246773

Even if just 1% out of them will go into actual science that would be a great boon to society.
Plus unlike money, scientific knowledge does trickle down into society with the popular culture. Nowadays most people are aware that the DNA is a double helix and that bacteria and viruses are causing infections. About 100 years ago the first fact would be an unprovable theory and the second just adopted by some doctors in the last decade or so.
Of course, there is a lag of 30 to 50 years between the general knowledge and cutting edge science, but that's more of a communication problem.

I don't want to burst your bubble, but the head researchers from the most prestigious universities and labs are just normal humans in most regards.
Because you need that special insight or inspiration or genius or whatever in like 3% of your work.
Yes it is needed and is lacking sometimes, but what science actually needs is robust data that is then competently analyzed.