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EricHiggin on 17 April 2019
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the-pi-guy said:
EricHiggin said:

Just like how in the time of flat Earth the overwhelming majority of people would assure you that the Earth was indeed flat. So much so they just might throw you in jail or kill you for not believing them?

The world was known to be spherical for thousands of years.  Galileo wasn't thrown in jail for claiming it was spherical.  Christopher Columbus and all his contemporaries knew the Earth was spherical.  
It's a myth that people thought the Earth was flat until Columbus.  

Galileo was thrown in jail for trying to mix his religious beliefs with his scientific reasoning.  

But sure, let's go with that. 

In an age, where only a few people know the Earth is moving, you're wondering where the DK effect is.  

If most of the people who studied the Earth knew it was moving and everyone else thought it was wrong, then the people would be an example of the DK effect.  

Someone can know something that an expert doesn't, but it isn't likely that someone would know something that no expert knows.  

People figure things out all the time who aren't experts. Lot's of those things even end up lost to time. Being an expert may make it more likely you should be able to come up with certain answers or new idea's, but there's no guarantee's. Especially with the communication system today. People who end up better than many others who sat at home and learned on the internet instead of spending years in school and loads of cash. Who's the smart one there? Don't the experts say you really need more education with the 'right' people teaching and in the proper environment?

Also, who deems experts, experts? Many times you have to prove many things before you're considered an expert, but if you were right the entire time, shouldn't you have been an expert from the beginning? If those experts didn't know you were right, why are they considered the experts?

Since others seem so sure Trump suffers from DK, and DK points out that those type of people may very well be the one's who aren't aware their DK'd, don't you think it's possible that it's all true? Maybe everyone in the conversation could possibly effected to some degree?

SpokenTruth said:
EricHiggin said:

You're the one who answered the question when I clearly stated it didn't need to be answered because it was quite off topic.

You asked a question about sound and then...

Wait....you brought up Schrodinger's Cat as some weird metaphor about sound - whether it exists or not without anyone to hear it?

What the...? It's like Poe's Law showed up with Schrodinger's Cat to a party to troll everyone, and Heisenberg wasn't sure if he was coming or going but it was all relative to Einstein. 

I'm done.

Back to US politics.

Ya. Is the cat dead or not? If only there was a device in the concealed box that could capture and analyze its heartbeat and brainwaves. Guess we just have to open it up and see to know for sure. 

I agree.