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If soccer were reported like science ...
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoThe one time I've actually made a pitch to someone for money I was accused of using too much technical jargon. Looking back on it now, many years on, and having read so much here, perhaps it's true. However, sometimes jargon is not avoidable if real communication is to take place, and the listener really does need to learn. This article is just to raise the question, not to provide any answers. And I found it funny.
- jerf 16y agoThe jargon metaphor was promising, but the bit about authority doesn't work. Soccer rules are intrinsically created by fiat; there is no pre-existing set of soccer rules that we have to discover through a contentious, challenging, and unreliable investigation over the course of decades, they literally are handed to us by an authority. Appeal to authority in such a situation is not a fallacy, it is the only proper basis for argument. I see what the author was getting at, but I think it fails to make the point. Did enjoy the "what's this all mean to the common man?" point, though.
- bitwize 16y agoBut you see, the difference is... soccer is important. Science is undertaken by and only of interest to krelboynes.
- robryan 16y agoThe sports report is aimed at sports fans whereas mainstream science reporting is simplified and aimed at everyone.
- Towle_ 16y agoI like the concept, but I think they missed some of the best jokes. "A group of American football experts claim to have scored the exact same number of 'goals' as their Slovenian counterparts, despite what many believe to be a computational error in recording the data."
- armandososa 16y agoIf soccer where reported like science won't be called soccer. You know, there's a ball that you kick with your foot. It's football.