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by bigchewy 3696 days ago
What do you think happens to the person who receives a single lab result, out of many, indicating that they have cancer? Human nature is to focus on the negative. To assume that humans can, by looking at a multitude of data points, ignore the small # of false positives is to misunderstand the evolution of human emotion.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200306/our-brains-n... talks about why we are evolutionarily programmed to latch on to the negative aspects of our life