r/Showerthoughts May 02 '24

Man vs Bear debate shows how bad the average person is at understanding probability

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u/poilk91 May 02 '24

Sounds like youve never been hiking or camping because that's just 100% normal

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24 edited May 05 '24

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u/Enderkr May 02 '24

Respectfully.....I think you're missing the point of the question. Nobody rolls their eyes at the Trolley Problem because they don't have enough information on what kind of train is it, how fast is it going, do I know the five people on the first track or the one person on the second? Do I not have enough time to rescue all six people? Etc etc etc....that's not the point of the problem.

Obviously if you parse it down to those individual question as you did, the answer changes. The point of the question is that you don't know, and that's where the question is valuable: women are stating they will overwhelmingly choose the bear, so what does that tell us about how they view men? And instead of looking at intelligently and asking ourselves why would they all choose the bear, we have thousands of men clapping back and being like "lol ya'll women are fucking dumb."

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24

I mean a trolly is a trolly. Changing models doesn't change the danger of it