The importance of research that proves "obvious" stuff

Just came across this on Tumblr, and I think it’s pretty important right now. Maybe front page material?

(Here’s the original if you don’t want to deal with the weird indentation of Tumblr posts with too many responses)

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Yeah, there’s a big gap between something “everyone knows” and something that’s proven.

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I know, I know…

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Well, I was a Sociology major, so yeah, I’m glad to hear it or that would have been a lot of time wasted.

Also, a lot of stuff we used to think was so obvious as to be risible is turning out to not be…universally obvious. remember when “Think of the children” was a joke?

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