Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt and I'm

Antonio Dodge. I have to lament something for just a moment here, something that I, something

that I'm just starting to get. I don't know if it's peturbed or annoyed or just like,

it's starting to drain on me, it's starting to wear on me over time. Yeah, so this is Joel's

lamentations. My limitations. Chapter one, verse one. Yeah. Nice is probably chapter like 30,

verse one. To be fair. The story continues. This whole notion that I see on social media and in

the world that the phrase studies show dot, dot, dot, and then fill in the blank of some study from

some, you know, I don't association, college, newspaper, it drives me crazy. It absolutely drives

me crazy because it's like how many studies conflict each other, they're supposed to be peer reviewed,

they are. And then like all these studies are, they're coming out to try to prove things. And

I'm reading these studies and I'm going, you know, like the summary of them, I don't actually go

and read many of them, but the summary that I'm reported by the news or the media or somebody points

to. And I'm like, this doesn't resonate with what I think reality looks like or how I've experienced

my life. I feel like I'm being manipulated with this. I feel like somebody's gotten some, you

know, some statistics and some numbers together. And they're weaving a narrative from those numbers

and then they're telling me how to think or believe or perspective something. And I'm like,

this is BS, man, how many studies do we have to keep throwing around? People are, well, how can

you prove that? Where's your study to back that up? And they, everybody's like throwing this

around. Like this is the, the Bible of the new world or something. Like we have these

articles, studies and all these stuff. I'm really, I'm on a rant right now as you can tell.

It's just like really bothering me because it's this, it's this, it's this sense as I move through

the world. And you know, most people talk about this idea of common sense. I don't know if I

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