Saturday, May 15, 2021
Question worth thinking about
Seen on Quora, a rare good question.
How can we infer an increase/decrease in the global skepticism of science?
We know that vast numbers of people stopped trusting Public Health, especially when Public Health and all corporations declared in unison that RIOTS CURE EPIDEMICS.
But how can we get a commercial and quantifiable metric for this distrust?
When people stop trusting a car brand, sales go down. When people stop trusting the Episcopal Church, tithing goes down. When people stop trusting a TV network or newspaper, the clicks and advertisers and subscribers drop. All are measurable decreases in revenue.
There aren't any mass-consumption science magazines or science shows. All the magazines are basically aimed at insiders. Subscribers are part of the secret-keeping priesthood. They're not ordinary churchgoers or customers who can lose trust. They're helping to generate the distrust. They know it's a hoax because they're building the hoax.
So there's no measure equivalent to tithing or subscriptions, no way to quantify trust by outsiders.
Labels: Asked and worth asking again, Metrology, Parkinson
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