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What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Wikipedia defines common sense as "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument"

Try to avoid using this topic to express niche or unpopular opinions (they're a dime a dozen) but instead consider provable intuitive facts.

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[–] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The claim and evidence here are not logically consistent.

It's like saying "cyanide won't make you dead" because, look "people still get dead from falling and crocodiles, even if there's no cyanide around".

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

no, it's not. it's a meta analysis of multiple double blind studies. multiple

“For the children described as sugar-sensitive, there were no significant differences among the three diets in any of 39 behavioral and cognitive variables. For the preschool children, only 4 of the 31 measures differed significantly among the three diets, and there was no consistent pattern in the differences that were observed.”

if you did the same with cyanide you would be able to conclude that "taking cyanide and being dead is positively correlated" even if there were other causes of death. in this wide summary of multiple double blind experiements, there is no correlation between sugar intake and child behaviour. that's not to say kids don't act up and get hyper, but it's other causes, most signficantly parents just underestimate how hard kids find it to regulate themselves when having treats of any sort (non-sugar included) or being in a party atmosphere with friends.