Interestingly, this particular flaw in reasoning (dare I say "fallacy"?) is far more prevalent in the the tech community. Being guided by Vulcan-like logic app

Interestingly, this particular flaw in reasoning (dare I say "fallacy"?) is far more prevalent in the the tech community. Being guided by Vulcan-like logic applied to completely neutral facts isn't just considered ideal but even achievable. Emotions, OTOH, are considered a weakness, as are any product considerations that cannot be expressed in SI units. Design/UI/UX are confused with "making it look pretty" in the same way that what's considered art is usually interior decorating and any actual art is considered pointless at best and another postmodern abomination at worst. So it's no wonder that they'll frequently believe "I found this one remote outlier" to be a valid refutation of some argument. Because, in principle, it is: If you don't caveat for black sheep, Taleb is going to smack you over the head. And if you list black sheep, I'll spray-paint a sheep red and consider myself extremely smart. Soon, we'll have names for 16.7 million colours so you'll be on the losing side of this argument forever. The "liberal arts" have their own weaknesses. Engineering can put a man on the moon or a nuclear bomb on Japanese soil and it's pretty well obvious that someone got done with their todo list this week. That other culture doesn't lack in achievements of similar magnitude, such as the rule of law or democracy. But these are hard to measure, are achieved gradually. It's near impossible to assign individual credit and therefore harder to implement a meritocracy. Yet because they continually live in this sort of murky dialectic discourse, the humanities are far more comfortable with complexity. The tech community even more than the natural sciences has a fundamental problem with getting even close to considering the best possible opposing argument. Considering how great their believe in both the power of "rationality" and their ability to use it is, it's not even funny to see how lawyers, for example, tend to wipe the floor with them. Witness any discussion of law here or among tech-twitter, where dozens of ideas will crop up how to outsmart the law by being "clever" and owning a dictionary ("the contract said "Dollars", but didn't specify USD. I'll just pay in CAD")