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Those who are insecure often project their supposed superiority in a variety of ways. One of the most popular ones is pointing out others' mistakes. However, sometimes the fact-checkers rely too much on their emotions and too little on the truth.

There's a Facebook group called 'People Incorrectly Correcting Other People' and it's full of humorous reminders that you need to be absolutely certain of what you're about to say when you're getting ready to bask someone, or else you're going to make a fool of yourself.

From folks who can't tell the time to grammar gurus stumbling on their own words, here are some of the most popular recent posts that were shared by the online community.

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David Fudge Report

When people disagree on an issue, there are several possible routes they can take. Some might avoid it altogether (either by putting off the discussion or just agreeing with the other person in order to end the conversation). But, as you see in the pictures, it's not for everyone — others believe they need to actively resolve the matter. 

In that case, they have a choice between being competitive or cooperative.

"Cooperative resolution means that people are seeking some kind of middle ground," explains Art Markman, Ph.D., and Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin. "Competitive resolution means that people are trying to convince the other person to change their belief."

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Many factors lead people to take a cooperative or competitive stance when dealing with a disagreement. For instance, the personality characteristic of openness reflects how willing we are to consider new ideas, and people high in openness are more likely to be cooperative than those who are low in openness. 

The characteristic of agreeableness reflects how much people want to get along with others — agreeable people are also more likely to seek a compromise than disagreeable people.

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Markman also suggests a paper by Kimberly Rios, Kenneth DeMarree, and Johnathan Statzer in the July 2014 issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin to better understand what affects our tendency to be cooperative or competitive.

Turns out, people's certainty about their beliefs can be broken down into two components: clarity and correctness. Clarity determines if we are sure about what we believe. Each of us has some beliefs that we hold deeply and others to which we are not as firmly attached. Correctness focuses on whether we think our belief is 'correct' in some broader cultural context or not.

The authors suggested that the more strongly people believe their attitude is correct, the more competitive they will be in their discussions with others. (Interestingly, they did not assume that clarity would be as strongly related to competitiveness.)

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Hawkmoon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This kind of person would rather carry a ton of feathers than ten kilograms of iron.

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Francis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah and that's why we explored so much of antarctica back then... wait no we didn't..

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"Being certain of your attitude can affect whether you try to convince other people that you are right," Markman writes. "In particular, the more strongly you believe that your attitude is the right one, the more you will focus on convincing others."

"That also means that if you find yourself in conflict with others on a regular basis, you might want to evaluate whether you generally assume that your attitudes are the correct ones."

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Hawkmoon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It always reminds me of the legend of the inventor of the game of chess who just asked for a grain of wheat on one square, then two on the next, four on the next, etc.

Julian Gerretsen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This equates to 18,446,744,073,709,600,000 grains of rice (Eighteen Quintillion Four Hundred Forty-Six Quadrillion grains of rice) 1kg of rice holds approximately 15,432 grains of rice. 1 metric ton of rice is 1kg X 1000. rice / 15,432 / 1000 = number of tons We therefore have 1,195,356,666,259 (One Trillion Two Hundred Billion roughly) Rice is approximately $620 currently per metric ton. Hence, if you used the chessboard example, you'd have around around $741,121,133,080,607. That's about 740.12 Trillion Dollars, about 22.45 X the current USA national debt. That's a lot of rice/money. In volume, there are baout 43 million grains of rice in a cubic metre. Our rice windfall would therefore fill a cubic box measuring 7.5 km square on all sides. That's a big a$$ box of rice....

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carne asada
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ok so i did calculations (correct me if im wrong) but folding a paper 42 times theoretically means it is equivalent to 4.3980465e+12 (idk what number that is) pieces of paper stacked on top of each other. The average stack of copy paper sold consists of 500 pieces, equaling 1.875 inches in height. If you divide 4.3980465e+12 by 500 to get the number of stacks of paper, you get 8796093022.21 stacks. If you multiply this by 1.875 for the height of the stacks you get 16492674416.6 inches. this is equivalent to 260301.048242 miles (418913.9301819732 km). the moon is 238,900 miles (384472.282 km) away from earth. This theory has just been proven, your welcome. again i may be wrong but im only 14

AgingBull
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Might require the same amount of energy to fold it 42 times as getting to the Moon

Tabitha
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There comes a point, at about 7 or 8 folds, where you can’t fold a sheet of paper “in half” anymore, no matter how big a sheet it is. Yes, you can fold it in parts, or in pleats way more times, but but if you’re talking about in half then in half again, you’re done at 7 or 8 folds.

Celesta
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They did thos on Mythbusters, using a sheet almost as latge as a hanger and still barely cracked 11 folds and that was with heavy machinery.

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Stephen Smith
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

fold paper once =2 fold it again =4 again =8 so it's not 42 sheets of paper. it will workout to 4,398,046,511,104 sheets of paper , wont get you to the moon, but you may find it difficult to breath if you stand on top.

Stephen Smith
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been thinking more about this. First we all know it's almost impossible to fold a paper more than 7 times. So let's pretend we can, or the best way to get the same result would be to stack the correct number of A4 sheets, which would be 4,398,046,511,104 sheets. The 80gsm thickness per sheet is 0.1mm, that times by 4,398,046,511,104 = 439,805 Km. The average distance to the moon is 384,400Km, so yes you can reach the moon. But there is something else to thick about, the best price I can find on A4 paper is £313.15 for 25,000 sheets. If you work out the cost it is £55,089,930,598.09 It would cost less to build your own rocket. Or just wait to book a holiday to the moon on SpaceX spaceship. BTW the surface area of all that paper is 274,306.16 SqKm that's more than the surface area of the UK.

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thea
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

call me stupid but I don't get it how does folded paper reach the moon doesn't it get smaller

thea
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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I honestly don't get how folded paper can reach the moon. Doesn't paper get smaller when folded? Correct me if I'm wrong I don't get this kind of stuff😭

Dwayne Gruber
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12 months ago

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Julian Gerretsen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An average piece of paper is roughly speaking, about 0.1mm thick. Whilst it's not physically possible to fold it in half more than about 7 or 8 times (try it yourself with a sheet of paper, results may vary with paper make-up!!!), let's pretend that this is possible. See the attached EXCEL snapshot to see how few times you need to fold the paper to reach the moon.... EXCEL_zFFS...ba3209.png EXCEL_zFFS354krI-6546453ba3209.png

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Amy
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only thing I'd say in Red's defense is that Blue didn't specify fold *in half*.

hyperfixationACTIVATED
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The person who said the first thing has been on neal.fun (there's a game on there in which your fold paper until it reaches the moon)

Gustav Gallifrey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 2001, high school student Britney Gallivan of Pomona, California, successfully managed to fold a paper in half 12 times by using a roll of long, thin specialty toilet paper that was 1.2 kilometers in length. The resulting 'pile' of paper did not reach to around a third of the distance to the Moon.

Remi (He/Him)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

12 times folded isn't ⅓ the height of 42 times folded. 13 times would be x2 of the 12 times, 14 times x4 etc. How ever high the 12 times folded was, the 42 times would be that times 2³⁶ which is something like 69 billion

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Manners mentor Maralee McKee finds it sad that sometimes, when people speak, their words seem more spit out than thought out. 

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"Stories abound, and it has happened to me, about being called out in person in front of family members, coworkers, friends, and anybody and everybody else for minor things, from incorrectly quoting a movie line, to saying something happened on a Tuesday when it occurred on a Wednesday, to getting the name wrong of the restaurant an incident occurred in while telling a great story," she says.

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lily jones
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But even if you're skinny your weight is still distributed fairly evenly around your body

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According to McKee, even if the 'correctors,' 'nit-pickers,' and 'accusers' are right, correcting others over small things is rarely called for, it seldom wins anyone friends, and on the rare occasion when it is called for, it's tricky to accomplish politely.

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For more people incorrectly correcting other people, fire up our older publications on the Facebook group, called 50 People That Had More Courage Than Brains To Go Incorrectly Correcting Someone and 45 Painfully Cringe Moments When People Thought They Knew Better, But Embarrassed Themselves Instead.

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Hawkmoon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Abracadabra is the term used in many european countries. It's origin is "adhadda kedhabhra", from aramean langage, meaning "destroy this thing". And if this reminds you of another magic formula in some books and movies, that's not a coincidence.

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DforDory
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the fact how I started thinking about what was the real intention - mercilessly or unmercilessly, rather than questioning the reason of the beating. It's like politics, you get distracted do easily from the main subject. 🥴

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Lexekon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which is correct sulphur or sulfur? Sulfur has been the preferred spelling of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) since 1990, and is the default form employed by many scientific journals 1. The alternative spelling sulphur may still be found in common use in the UK and Commonwealth, especially by laypeople.Mar 15, 2019

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censorshipsucks
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

four is germanic. Colour is latin. The "u" was artificially introduced to make consistency with french spelling (french descends from latin). Original old english for four was "feower".

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censorshipsucks
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I use these differently even though we supposedly use UK english here. I use mold for the fungus and mould for shaping-something (verb or noun). I do the same with disc/disk and program/programme. I use disc = a circle, disk = a computer disk; and program = verb, to make a computer do something; programme = series of in-person/person-attended events , e.g. wedding programme.

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one shouldn't be here. It's simply the difference between British English and American English. Both are correct ,it simply depends on which English you use.

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Corvus
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Betelgeuse is also the name of a star... still pronounced like Beetlejuice.

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BlueBlazer999
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“Spelling and Grammar” would be replaced by the pronoun they, meaning are is perfectly valid.

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