How to Use Robust Scientific Model Theory Rather than Opinions and Common Beliefs to Lower Negative Experience of Life?

C. What is an Opinion or Common belief

a. Opinion

For instance, because you got healed when you heard someone singing a song while going to the office, you might create an opinion that “If you want to reduce office conflict, they listen to songs while going to the office.”

b. Superstition

Sometimes, opinions may also lead to superstitions.

For instance, you may become superstitious that “whenever you see a Red Ferrari, your day will be bad, so avoid important meetings on that day.”

c. Common Belief

d. Why we must not create opinions from common beliefs?

You have already seen that an opinion is created by someone based on an observation leading to an experience in his/her life. That person might not even have waited multiple times for the same experience, and might not have tested if the opposite of the opinion is true or not. You have also seen that the actual opinion eliminates the context from the opinion so that the opinion can be applied to larger areas of life.

(For instance one did not elaborate on the context that if you have a daily fight in the office, and if you are running for the office daily, if you are irritated by the noise of the traffic while driving to the office, try to find some street singers, take a pause, listen to the song, get healed, and you will have lesser conflict for the day).

Let’s now take the example of the common opinion that “A good school education will lead to good life.” Irrespective of the number of people you meet ask them “Do you think I should put my child in a good school?” almost everyone will say “Absolutely.”

Nobody wants to appear opinionated. Everyone wants to appear intelligent and rational. So people would not only give you their opinion but also tell you why the opinion is in fact a universal truth. They may say “Only because my parents put me in good school, I am earning 1 Lakh a month, having a car and flat.”

How to distinguish an opinion from a theory?

Therefore, if you are to evaluate whether a statement is opinionated or theoretical, all you have to do is see if the opposite of opinion holds true factually for more than 10% or not. That is because anything in the universe is true if it maintains a 99.99% equilibrium.

For instance, the speed of light in the entire universe is constant, but not within the black hole, because light is consumed by the black hole. Same way Ohm’s law holds true in every place of the universe for all the electrical and electronic circuits, but not in the short circuits. So, Ohm’s law is a good theory, speed of light is a truth.

Now let’s see if “Good education will provide good employment” is true or not.

You may see that the Literacy rate in India has gone up from 20% in 1950 to 52% in 1991, and in the next 20 years, it has increased to 74%, almost a 1% increase in the literacy rate every year.

India’s Graduation education rate(GER) increased to almost 300%, from 11% to 30% in the last twenty years.

This means that India’s unemployment rate should also come down by about 300% and India’s overall unemployment rate must be less than 20% (because the literacy rate is 80%).

However, what we see is completely contradictory to the statement that “Education improves earning and employment, and a good school is the key to good life.”

From 2005 onwards, even though higher education and literacy both have increased drastically, unemployment has also increased by over 10%, so the above statement is merely an opinion and not truth.

When people start believing the individual opinion of people, irrespective of the number of people(including their representative government), then that’s a false belief.