Man Explains Why People Are Being Foolish Using Chess And ELO Analogy

If you watched the Queen's Gambit on Netflix then this might make sense to you

Damjan

• Published in Interesting
• December 15, 2020

Humans tend to almost always think they are right and know more than they do. No matter how many signs indicating that we couldn't be more wrong we get, it doesn't change our mind.

Even when confronted with hard arguments, we won't budge, and our explanation to every question is -"because." One man recently took it upon himself to prove that it's complete nonsense trying to defy recognized scientific research using our untrained thinking or your own beliefs.

Trying to criticize an acknowledged mathematician or scientist by applying our own "common sense" is basically behaving like a five-year-old kid. Take a look…

In case you are wondering what an Elo rated player is; the Elo rating system is used to evaluate the players’ skill levels in zero-sum games such as chess.

Nothing new so far; he is basically saying what we already knew- the better a person is at something, the more likely he will beat a person that is not good.

So basically, it all comes to this – for a chess master, it doesn’t make a difference if he plays against an adult amateur or a five-year-old. He will beat them both, 100 out of 100 times.

This also holds true for amateurs in other fields.

The conclusion?

The idea that a person could use common sense to question legitimate scientific research is absurd.

You would be wrong, but you also couldn’t understand why you are wrong.

Ah, the Facebook “researchers” ….

Damjan