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A source that disproves a made up unsourced story is fake?
by gowld 7y ago
A source that disproves a made up unsourced story is fake?
- js8 7y agoTo be fair, there exist sites like snopes.com which do this type of fact-checking. But I couldn't find it there.
- nybble41 7y agoThe story could still be made up, but the source for the quote is this book: Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayes and Ted Orland https://www.amazon.com/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaking/dp/0961454733 https://www.amazon.com/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaki...
- MR4D 7y agoHere's two that prove it. [0] - https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality... [1] - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0961454733/?tag=codihorr-20 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0961454733/?tag=codihorr-20
- detaro 7y agoprove what? That someone printed the anecdote in a book?
- sincerely 7y agoWhat would suffice, video recordings of every class?
- gowld 7y agoNaming the teacher, the school, the year, the city, something that would give a hint for someone to follow up for verification.
- MR4D 7y agoExcept for Politicians, Salespeople, and Known Criminals, I tend to take people at their word. Your approach might be different than mine.
- MR4D 7y agoAnd here's the text in another book, courtesy of Google Books, on page 264: https://books.google.com/books?id=TuvOng_Yh6wC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA264&dq=The+ceramics+teacher+announced+on+opening+day+that+he+was+dividing&hl=en&source=newbks_fb#v=onepage&q=The%20ceramics%20teacher%20announced%20on%20opening%20day%20that%20he%20was%20dividing&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=TuvOng_Yh6wC&newbks=0&prin...
- MR4D 7y agoAnd here's audio of the authors saying that it's a true story: http://www.innonavi.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/David-Bayles-and-Ted-Orland-Pottery-Story-7-12-16-InnoNavi-MP3.mp3 http://www.innonavi.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/David-Bay...
- gowld 7y agoThat's a repetition of the same claim, not a source. He doesn't mention simple information like who or where the class was, which there is no reason to be secret about. Also, it doesn't pass the obvious sniff test, that a teacher would spend a whole semester giving half of his class a terrible experience that uttery failed to teach them anything, leaving them with "a pile of dead clay" as the author claims.