Like all things, just because something goes against conventional wisdom also does not mean it’s NOT a good idea. Most people, in most (all?) topics I have run into, dont realize how much they rely on “because its what Im familiar with”, and how LITTLE they rely on data or any objective measure. Ive found this to be true in all aspects of life, I think its a universal truism of people in general, regardless of what they say. Humans are simply hard-wired to take mental shortcuts and make fast decisions without data, and asking them to apply rationality, the Scientific Method and objective decision making or judgement to a topic that threatens their understanding of what they think they know is an uphill battle-thats just not how human beings tend to think. There is an entire branch of study on human decision-making that has thoroughly documented this. These mental shortcuts and fallbacks on what is familiar and ingrained seem to have been an evolutionary benefit in making snap decisions on who is friend or foe, what is safe or unsafe, etc, but they inevitably lead to patterns of failure in certain areas—its why pilots and other high-consequence decision makers are forced to use checklists rather than rely on mental judgement alone. And it inevitably leads to repetitively circular mega-threads on internet forums like this one. Tens of thousands of years of human evolution have lead us directly to page 22 of this thread.
