That and the “Alpha Male” garbage. Even the author of the study on wolves has said repeatedly that his study was totally wrong. And yet some people continue to reference it and apply it to humans when even the original study wasn’t about people.
I think that one is finally starting to die off, aside from the last gasps of a man in prison. It takes a while for real science to filter through to common knowledge, and I’m constantly seeing the corrections about wolves and alpha status as flawed thinking.
I think it also got tied into the incel movement and became a toxic phrase. Even if you didn’t know the actual science, would you want to call yourself an “alpha male” if it made people think you were an incel?
It came from early on in studying the brain. A scientist said that we only understand what 10 percent of the brain does, and everyone ran with a misunderstanding of that idea.
“We only use ten percent of our brains.”
People genuinely believe this and never learned where it came from.
That and the “Alpha Male” garbage. Even the author of the study on wolves has said repeatedly that his study was totally wrong. And yet some people continue to reference it and apply it to humans when even the original study wasn’t about people.
People love excuses for bad behavior, no need to verify them. Sigh.
I think that one is finally starting to die off, aside from the last gasps of a man in prison. It takes a while for real science to filter through to common knowledge, and I’m constantly seeing the corrections about wolves and alpha status as flawed thinking.
I think it also got tied into the incel movement and became a toxic phrase. Even if you didn’t know the actual science, would you want to call yourself an “alpha male” if it made people think you were an incel?
I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.
A profound twist on a worn out wrong fact.
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Where did the myth come from?
It came from early on in studying the brain. A scientist said that we only understand what 10 percent of the brain does, and everyone ran with a misunderstanding of that idea.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains here. https://youtube.com/shorts/E4EjYfUBEvw?si=LO3GIURgZesHjo85
Sidenote, why does everyone hate Neil these days?
He thinks he’s so smart about everything and there’s always this condescending tone.
Like no shit Neil?
Piling on…
Oh god I forgot about that one lol.
Piling on, he totally misses the arguments and ideas being put forward by the interviewer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9Xv7pHG_4
Piling on
https://youtu.be/sIJVopJe9F4
Okay well this is just trying to be funny. Did giggle a bit on the first one
The last one is perfection. We have !fuckcars@lemmy.world, maybe we can get a !fuck_sports somewhere?
That’s only true for Elon musk. He maybe even use less.
He uses more than 10%, but not of brain.
I mean, it’s true for the people that use that phrase.
Often times, yes!
Ha ha yeah and we only use 10% of our muscles luckily :-D
Limitless was fun though.
Ooh! Isn’t that the one where the guy becomes limitless?
I liked the part where he said “It’s limitless time” and totally limited those other guys
Deunlimited them since some were also on the limitless vibe