When people say "common sense" they basically mean "I want to prove this is true but I don't know how to make an argument for it so I'll say this buzzword I think makes things sound true."

by Altruistic_End3780 1 month ago

Yea, imagine.

by Sbailey 1 month ago

A lot of smart people aren't smart in different scenarios

by Low_Call 1 month ago

The issue here is that everyone has common sense but not everyone will use it, instead making out a huge complicated problem about something that's easily solved with... common sense.

by Academic-Text 1 month ago

You got an example?

by Equivalent_Topic_545 1 month ago

9/10 common sense is usually the right answer. Not everyone has it. Call center experience for multiple different fields can easily prove that. Not everyone thinks of it and tries it out first.

by armstrongcraig 1 month ago

Don't think OP is talking about that. I think they're talking about people that justify their baseless beliefs saying they're common sense instead of making any sort of argument for them.

by Thea22 1 month ago

I usually take "common sense" as short hand for "I didn't want to look this up"

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I really don't believe the dunning Kruger curve is anything more than a confidence curve with a few outliers. It is not built on intelligence but on performance which is built on level of caring, compliance along with other factors in daily life. This is the same metric we use to gauge intelligence in animals which is the weirdest metric to me to measure. Why anyone would believe this study has never read a German scientist or philosopher from pre war Germany. Nietzsche who is one of the smartest philosophers ever would literally boast in his writing how amazing and how much smarter he was than everyone at the time. Freud, Jung and their successors would have trouble with this but they were on a lot of drugs.

by NegotiationOk 1 month ago

Knowing things you had to learn to survive is not stupid. Its surviving. People act smart that can't change a tire are fine if they can afford a tow or mechanic. People that have no means and no useful skills to speak of are dead weight when it matters. Some kid with a degree in 17th century French Literature can't cook a microwave burrito telling the internet there is no common sense.

by Moist-Violinist 1 month ago

While I don't disagree, I also know and am always dumbfounded by the amount of people that would rather go through a series of mental gymnastics to overcomplicate a problem that can be solved simply, quickly and efficiently.

by Own-Instruction 1 month ago

Science and reason trump common sense. If I use my senses and look around, the horizon is pretty flat looking,.so I might conclude the Earth is too. But if I start tracking the movement of stars, seasons changing, angles of shadows depending on how clise I am to the equator, how there is more light at sun rise and sunset with altitude, someone can reason it is a globe, as the ancients have done.

by AdUpstairs6300 1 month ago

I know how to weave a basket...

by Quiet_Phone_4446 1 month ago