Some people say "I can always spot when someone is wearing a hairpiece" - no, you can only spot the obvious ones. You don't know that someone is wearing one when you don't notice it. So you think your success rate is 100%.
Sure, some small minority of atheists bring up their atheism on a regular basis, but the vast majority do not, and he's making the same mistake - he thinks only the minority of atheists who bring it up are all the atheists he knows, and he doesn't know that way more people he meets who do not bring up their atheism are atheists, and he doesn't count them. So he's actually got like a 10-20% success rate of spotting atheists, but think he's at 100%.
Same thing with vegans (most of them you'd never know, but people think the loud minority define them) and other groups where there's a small vocal minority and a large relatively silent majority.
Actually, living in the bible belt I NEVER bring up my atheism because it's an invitation for everyone within earshot to tell me I'm wrong and ask questions like "if God doesn't exist how do you explain miracles" and "oh so let me guess you also believe the earth is more than 6k years old huh?"
QuiteFrankE on May 22nd, 2021 at 18:38 UTC »
I’ve constantly got atheists knocking on my door trying to convert me to atheism.
SenorBeef on May 22nd, 2021 at 19:21 UTC »
Some people say "I can always spot when someone is wearing a hairpiece" - no, you can only spot the obvious ones. You don't know that someone is wearing one when you don't notice it. So you think your success rate is 100%.
Sure, some small minority of atheists bring up their atheism on a regular basis, but the vast majority do not, and he's making the same mistake - he thinks only the minority of atheists who bring it up are all the atheists he knows, and he doesn't know that way more people he meets who do not bring up their atheism are atheists, and he doesn't count them. So he's actually got like a 10-20% success rate of spotting atheists, but think he's at 100%.
Same thing with vegans (most of them you'd never know, but people think the loud minority define them) and other groups where there's a small vocal minority and a large relatively silent majority.
ShooterOfCanons on May 22nd, 2021 at 19:53 UTC »
Actually, living in the bible belt I NEVER bring up my atheism because it's an invitation for everyone within earshot to tell me I'm wrong and ask questions like "if God doesn't exist how do you explain miracles" and "oh so let me guess you also believe the earth is more than 6k years old huh?"