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Pieces of information from the same source are not independent with regard to reliability. To establish reliability of the source, one should take a sample of f
by gintas 16y ago
Pieces of information from the same source are not independent with regard to reliability. To establish reliability of the source, one should take a sample of facts and verify. If you can find misinformation even without investigation, it indicates high probability that other information from the same source is incorrect.
- hakunin 16y agoA source either has a culture of trying to provide precise facts or it doesn't. This is fully orthogonal to the source making errors, being unintentionally ambiguous or misleading. Everyone does, accidentally. I am fully for dismissing a bad news source, but the complaint in the original comment provides no grounds. Can't condemn ruby as "slow language" because a program somebody wrote in it at one point runs slowly. Just a bit tired of extremely pedantic complaints. I understand when there's lack of writing skill, horrible ambiguitiy, or outright bullshit, but here I see a mistake irrelevant to the main point of the article. It's not a big deal really, whatever floats your boat, but these harsh complains of how "I'm never gonna read it again! It LIED! Conspiracy to boost hype!" are getting annoying.