Should you reverse any advice you hear?

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/24/should-you-reverse-any-advice-you-hear/

Summary

You may want to consider the reverse advice you hear because if you hear an advice it’s likely you are in the group who already believes in that advice eg:

For just this reason I worry that everything I post on my blog is correct, but wrong relative to readers of my blog. For example, I post about how everyone needs to be much more mindful of the role biological factors play in human social systems. And I’m 99% sure that the average person is not sufficiently aware of or concerned about this. But I’m much less certain that the average reader of my blog isn’t sufficiently aware or concerned about this. Maybe people who are really interested in biodeterminism search “biodeterminism” on Google, find my blog and several others, and end up way too biodeterminist. Maybe their time would be much better served reading some blog on how many things are due to fuzzy hard-to-measure social factors like who your third-grade teacher was.

This dynamics may often happen because of an affective Death spirals process or adjacent process of Group think.