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Publius015 t1_j8jl0o6 wrote

Reply to comment by thatissomeBS in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga

This right there is what the vast majority of vaccine skeptics didn't understand. Literally nobody said the vaccine would 100% guarantee your health, but vaccine skeptics don't understand that it isn't binary, just like you said.

Everything is risk management to some degree.

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bkydx t1_j8jkmfj wrote

Reply to comment by Feudamonia in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

According to science if something is in sight but your brain is not consciously perceiving then it invisible is the correct term.

The people that are arguing against you probably have more knowledge about invisible super heroes then any sort of science.

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bkydx t1_j8jkdnl wrote

Reply to comment by walksineternity in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

Invisible is the correct scientific term and should be used.

Your "very" specific understanding of invisible is based of super hero's and television and not what it actually means in science.

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bkydx t1_j8jinuw wrote

Reply to comment by zulu_candles in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

Seen by the eye but not perceived by your visual cortex.

Eg. A hunter can stand directly in view of an animal it is hunting and sometimes the animal's brain is unable to process what it is looking at and it will not react to the threat that is in plain sight.

So to the prey, the Hunter is "Invisible" according to Science because the visual input isn't being processed and not because the Hunter is Bending light and becoming see-through.

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bkydx t1_j8jh3yc wrote

Reply to comment by thissexypoptart in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

Invisible is to correct scientific term for an object that is seen and not perceived.

"Not perceptible by vision"

People trying to use what they think it means.

Probably related to Fantasy writing and super heroes and bending light and making things see-through and incorrectly arguing over pedantic details.

The Faces are Invisible and this is not a poor description.

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External-Tiger-393 t1_j8jfp05 wrote

Reply to comment by klousGT in Social mobility refers to movement of individuals from one socio-economic strata to another. Social mobility is largely driven by personal motivation, education, skills and migration. But an analysis of historical data tells us that social mobility is primarily caused by changes in political rule. by rustoo

I would argue that opportunity is the biggest factor, and most places in the world don't give you a lot of opportunities.

There are a ton of situations that you can have, just in the US, that can stop your social mobility and/or keep you in the poverty trap.

Not being able to afford school; not being able to afford to survive while you go to school; not being able to access the health care you need to maintain enough functioning to get into a higher paying field, learn a trade, or go to college; being in a situation where you feel that you need to take care of a sick relative or younger siblings because you've been raised to put yourself second for the needs/convenience of others; becoming a single parent too "early" for any possible reason...

Someone I know has their extended family paying $50k out of the $80k they need to go to their university every year, and the rest is covered by scholarships. They have OCD and generalized anxiety disorder, but they get the health care that they need to manage that. You may see how this person might have a lot more opportunities than most people to "get ahead", so to speak; and I think that a lot of people would be as or more successful than they are in the same position. They just don't get the same kind of support. Hell, even this person's sibling doesn't get remotely the same kind of support.

IMO this is where the government should come in, but obviously (at least, again, in the US) it doesn't. I know a whole bunch of motivated people who can't get ahead, and the reasons are almost always systemic. I also know some people who don't want to get ahead, so to speak, but they are few and far between and they're also my immediate family which is made up mostly of grifters.

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bkydx t1_j8jfm2w wrote

Reply to comment by runawaycluetrain in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

Invisible is the correct term and just means "not perceptible by vision"

Your Amygdala is perceiving the "fear" and aware of the visual stimulus even if your conscious is not aware.

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bkydx t1_j8jes52 wrote

Reply to comment by Ok_Skill_1195 in The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga

People cannot tell and are often wrong when they have that gut feeling for no reason.

In This study there is a visible stimulus that triggers the fear and not Magic.

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