What a stupid headline.
“So who are these people? They’re a bit more likely to be female. While both the comparison groups were roughly evenly split between male and female, the superspreaders were 60 percent female. They’re also older, on average 58 years old, nearly 20 years older than the sample as a whole.”
So it’s not older women but older people, a bit more often women than men
And perhaps statistically insignificant when proportionally adjusted (men die younger or fewer use social media).
So the term “old wives’ tale” is still holds up?
I can clearly see this around me.
Not only women, but also elder men, who are really educated but lose their lucidity in front of fake news on the web. I guess it’s also because they come from a time where you were not swimming in fake news.
And sometimes, even if they think it might be fake news, they just send it to you to get your opinion on it.
My mother, an otherwise brilliant woman, was convinced that Prilosec causes Alzheimer’s
My mom is convinced the covid vaccine is going to kill me.
It is. I heard it making sinister plans with some sketchy characters out back o the Wendy’s
Where do I sign up?
Luckily I’ve basepilled my mom enough that she doesn’t fall for this sort of crap.
There’s this expression, it refers to a piece of information that is often spread as wisdom but has no basis in fact or truth, that expression is “old wives tale.”
Old wives be trippin’.
You: what a flawed study, they indirectly say women are more clueless than men using dubious methodology and weak quality sample.
Me: older women can appreciate the thrills of spreading fake news in the morning to poison the system and accelerate collapse of capitalism.
We are not the same
We are not the same
Yay!
Lmao
Seeding fake news in the minds of clueless folks is quite fun feeling, you should try it sometime. Makes you feel like a god, shaping the reality itself
Unpopular opinion it seems, but it’s true. I successfully convinced a dude that “zebras aren’t real, they’re just horses painted to look like that. Big Zoo is just lying to sell tickets.” I was kidding but he believed it and it just made it that much better lol.
I’m not doing it as some crusade against any -isms though I just think it’s fucking hilarious.
That sounds fun, you changed his life forever. From now on he will always think that just around the corner there is a Big Zoo agent, waiting to get their hands on an unpainted horse.
