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At which point this turns into a "No true Scotsman" fallacy

• crusso 10y ago
  The NTS fallacy is based upon goalpost moving with no clear metric for success. Graduating medical school is definably not goalpost moving.
  • pacaro 10y ago
    My observation was that introducing the "didn't work hard enough" element _is_ moving the goalposts.
    • crusso 10y ago
      You misunderstand the "No True Scotsman" fallacy to apply it to this situation. There's a metric for success (graduating), and no one claimed that the only possible way that someone didn't make it is "work harder". I said that perhaps that's the reason since by the time people make it to medical school, they're on a fairly even playing field. NTS is typically applicable when someone expresses a goal like "being a good Christian" and then continues to redefine what that means, never admitting that some are good Christians because of endless redefinitions of the metrics.