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Don't get in a verbal pissing contest. Bring up a concrete example. Then they can do the same. Anecdata battle until trends can be established. Or if data trend

Don't get in a verbal pissing contest. Bring up a concrete example. Then they can do the same. Anecdata battle until trends can be established. Or if data trends can be shown, link those.

BitwiseFool 5y ago
Not every discussion between people needs to have the caliber of evidence required by a scientific study or dissertation. Besides, arguments like that tend to just end up being tennis matches where commenters lob citations back and forth at each other without reading them. Also, I think people should feel free to share whatever life experience / observations / anecdotes they have because it's not like what we write here is going to get cited in some journal.
- sethammons 5y ago
  This was a case of "my dad can beat up your dad." Just stated as "I see worse than you are seeing." Nothing of substance. If we want to compare who's stream is worse, provide some examples, don't just say you've dealt with worse than what you assume the other person has. Anyway, looks like I replied to the wrong post originally. And I botched my delivery. It was a poor attempt at encouraging more substantive discussion. I, for one, would have been interested in seeing an example that points out how much more ruthless a different country was, and I would have hoped that someone would show a counter example, and then a n interesting discussion pop up.
ad404b8a372f2b9 5y ago
This is a conversation not a pissing context or a peer reviewed study. It's very hard to quantify one's experience. I was once active on both the UK and American sphere of twitter and I feel the American side of it is much worse. It's fine to not go further and just acknowledge different people have different experiences. We don't have to go fetch studies that take ages to read fully and to critically examine just to justify every opinion we have, especially when there's probably just as many studies pointing to the opposite.
isoskeles 5y ago
Why didn’t you post this reply one comment up?

Don't get in a verbal pissing contest. Bring up a concrete example. Then they can do the same. Anecdata battle until trends can be established. Or if data trends can be shown, link those.

BitwiseFool 5y ago

Not every discussion between people needs to have the caliber of evidence required by a scientific study or dissertation. Besides, arguments like that tend to just end up being tennis matches where commenters lob citations back and forth at each other without reading them. Also, I think people should feel free to share whatever life experience / observations / anecdotes they have because it's not like what we write here is going to get cited in some journal.

sethammons 5y ago
This was a case of "my dad can beat up your dad." Just stated as "I see worse than you are seeing." Nothing of substance. If we want to compare who's stream is worse, provide some examples, don't just say you've dealt with worse than what you assume the other person has. Anyway, looks like I replied to the wrong post originally. And I botched my delivery. It was a poor attempt at encouraging more substantive discussion. I, for one, would have been interested in seeing an example that points out how much more ruthless a different country was, and I would have hoped that someone would show a counter example, and then a n interesting discussion pop up.

ad404b8a372f2b9 5y ago

This is a conversation not a pissing context or a peer reviewed study. It's very hard to quantify one's experience. I was once active on both the UK and American sphere of twitter and I feel the American side of it is much worse. It's fine to not go further and just acknowledge different people have different experiences. We don't have to go fetch studies that take ages to read fully and to critically examine just to justify every opinion we have, especially when there's probably just as many studies pointing to the opposite.

isoskeles 5y ago

Why didn’t you post this reply one comment up?