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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Not as much as you think.
It wasn't until graduate level statistics until we got into how to tear down bad stats as part of understanding how to make good stats.
Like, even for people who took regular college level statistical analysis, the hardest part of it is still keeping you bias out.
Teach a bunch of high schoolers stats, and they're gonna think they're smarter than a gambling app. That leads to more people trying it, and naturally more people getting hooked.
You're thinking of it as innoculation when it's more like the first hit for free...
Quick edit:
It's like how med students think they know more than every doctor they've ever seen and diagnosis themselves with a bunch of shit
A little bit of knowledge mixed with teenage confidence and an undeveloped brain doesn't always result in a positive.
So with something as addictive as gambling, the best way to decrease it is to limit or avoid exposure to gambling until mid 20s when the brain is more likely to be developed.
My brother took intro to counselling, diagnosed himself as suffering with Special Boy disease, everyone else in the family with Evil Syndrome and went off the deep end into a full public mental breakdown, from which our relationship has never recovered.
Reminds me of psych 101 - much of the class thought they had something.
Considering most videogames have been dopamine hacked with lootcrates and similar mechanics almost no one is avoiding this until their 20s. Just like lemmy's feed: random searching leading to stochastic rewards trigger our hunter gatherer neuro-circuitry the same way gambling does, little hits of dopamine to reward us for searching.
No one matures without being tweaked neurologically, except the more conservative amish and global super-poor who never touch casinos or technology.
Edit for clarity
Sounds a lot like antivacxers screeching everyone gets chickenpox...