Ah, I didn’t know it was a public figure. That’s a bad sign. I don’t think her lack of expertise is important though. I thought I was watching a non-expert lay person.
Big picture:
Personal anecdotes from low-prestige people are one of the more reliable forms of evidence on social media. But you have to be wary of generalizing from them.
Studies are more doubtful in general. Studies are already generalized, so it’s harder for them to be right than claims that aren’t generalized yet.
If you compare studies to your own generalizations of anecdotes, they may be similarly reliable, or more, or less. It depends on many things including how much risk you take when generalizing.
If you hear about a study on social media and give it similar default importance in your mind to one or two anecdotes, maybe that’s fine. If you count it like fifty anecdotes, then that’s a problem and you’d fall for a lot of propaganda.
I suspect I trust studies less than the average person. I didn’t intend for people to put a lot of trust in studies that I share.
I do think sharing of studies gets into propaganda territory more than a lot of highly real/plausible sounding personal anecdotes. There are also other anecdotes that seem less trustworthy and could more easily be propaganda. It’s hard to specify in clear, explicit terms how to tell the difference.
double divorcé
A lot of ultra high status men have divorces too. Not sure this is very relevant.
IMO the clip is propaganda.
OK so I didn’t look up the study yet. Let’s take a look now. Gemini claims her sources are:
Revisiting the Relationships among Gender, Marital Status, and Mental Health
Happy Ever After (book)
The Relationship Between Sex Roles, Marital Status, and Mental Illness
Are you already familiar with any of these?
Do you think that’s a potential sign of exposure to and belief in contradictory propaganda? Or an indicator of tribalism?
I’m guessing you didn’t research the studies before being triggered (since you didn’t talk about them), which sounds like a bad sign to me, though let me know if you did!