neatchee

Ehhhhhhhh that's generally untrue honestly.

Many people have the capacity. And there are enough shitty people that they will take advantage if given the opportunity.

But most people are just trying to live their lives as best they can, and much of their selfishness can be unlearned, or isn't really selfishness anyway, just survival instinct and misinformation

I provided a proper explanation for the silent observers ;)

Don't even get me started on Dilbert's "The TTP Project"

Or what happens when you Google "recursion"

The median is a statistical fact that can be used by humans in both good and bad ways. Lots of data can be made to look lots of different ways in the hands of different people.

That's why teaching critical thinking (not just the skills but the importance and value) is paramount. People need to understand what they're looking at. Because sometimes you want the mean, other times you want the median, and if you can't even understand when you might want one or the other or both for different reasons then you can be led around by the nose with either.