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What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by 6mementomori@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Women have smaller brains than men.

I mean, yes. Women as a population are physically smaller than men as a population.

Women have smaller fingers than men. Smaller eyes. Smaller lungs. There is no "gotcha" that smaller skeletal frames with smaller skulls contain, by volume, a smaller organ.

Doesnt mean every man's brain is larger than every woman's brain either.

Doesn't mean men are smarter than women.

It's just a statistic, that while true, doesn't imply what some people think it does.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Many years ago I worked as an analyst at a small VC firm. My boss, who was a raging misogynist prick and liked to date College freshmen, LOVED this fact (and any other Manosphere bullshit he could find about women being inferior to men). He was such an unbelievable stereotype, he could have stepped out of a sitcom.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah I mean, neanderthals had bigger brains than humans, and they were no smarter than we are (as far as we know.)

Also a blue whale's brain is four times the size of a human brain and they don't even know how to drive.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We don't really know where blue whales go a lot of the time, so I think that's a bit of an assumption there.

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