Deduction and Gossiping

Comparison

Deduction and gossiping are surprisingly really similar in the process of how it was made: Observation – Deduction.

However, Gossiping is really low level and inaccurate. You see one thing about a person walking by and you immediately tell your friend something about your observation without validating it.

"This girl walking by is wearing short skirt, she must be a spoil one."

Compared to Deduction, a much more higher-level course of action. Multiple observations, combined with each other to form a high percentage of accuracy guess.

“This girl walking by is wearing short skirt, smell like cheap perfume, reeked with alcohol, it’s only 5 in the morning, but she looks like a mess. A party girl would wear a decent perfume, what could it be that she wears cheap perfume?”

Hidden advantage

Social creature

Human is by large a social creature, we need communication, even a short one to thrive in life. Most things that result from evolution will be good for you to replicate. In this case, you will be rewarded with Dopamine and an active prefrontal cortex.

Building data

People who gossip often will subconsciously develop a more and more accurate data base on common sense, without even knowing it. It’s similar to when you feel like something is out of place, but you can’t tell what it is. You brain will just see it and make an accurate “gossip”, which can help you in deduction.

Chameleon mode

If you can do what other people do effortlessly, you will be able to blend in, do what you want to do stealthily. I will always mention how important it is to be a social chameleon, even charming.

For example, when you want to collect data about how people in a city use slang so that you can identify the fake one. Is it just so much easier if you blend in rather than standing awkwardly on the street and listen to people from far way.