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I know this sort of criticism can be annoying, but despite commenting on HN I would surely qualify as a 'lay reader' in this context, and I have a strong prefer
by retsibsi 7y ago
I know this sort of criticism can be annoying, but despite commenting on HN I would surely qualify as a 'lay reader' in this context, and I have a strong preference for authors taking care to either tell the whole truth or flag that a potentially misleading simplification has been made -- even if the falseness seems like a technicality to the author. If I notice it then I lose faith in the author's credibility, and if I don't then now I've 'learned' something false.
- ZenPsycho 7y agoYou sound like someone who doesn't know how to critically determine whether something is true independently of reading it in an article, or detect whether someone has likely made a simplification for the benefit of a non technical audience from the tone an article is written in. I wonder what you do if you read two articles that each make conflicting claims. How do you decide which is telling the truth?