Low cognition predicts unrealistic optimism. High cognition predicts realism and pessimism.

I aslo cn tip lik dis an u no Wat I mnt. Itz lot shrtr 2. y dnt acadmiks do dis? its highr cognitv lod 2 thy lik dat rite?

There's a reason (no good reason) normal (academics) human beings don't (do) use that kind of positive (negative) writing.

My field has different but equally terrible high cognitive load writing conventions, and I call them out as bad every time.

Thank you for explaining that. I hate it.

I end up reading a lot of academic journals, and the way that they're written I swear are intentionally obtuse. Sometimes people say "they only seem that way because they are communicating complex ideas", but when I read papers in my own field I know that that's not really the case. I once made it three quarters of the way through an article before I realized that all they were doing was slapping a PID on the problem they were defining. You could have written the same article and made it understandable to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the subject but instead they had to make it so obtuse that practitioners in the field would really struggle.

I mean plenty of reasons to be depressed, we have destroyed our planet, we are in the middle of the biggest mass extinction in 140 million years, and we can't afford anything anymore. But yeah it's a mindset or something.

To be fair this is the best time to be alive ever.

Don't be too hard on them, it's difficult to read with low cognition