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lived experience >>>> any expert opinion Or put another way, today N=1 trumps N=1000. That's how you shutdown any discussion.
by 323 5y ago
lived experience >>>> any expert opinion
Or put another way, today N=1 trumps N=1000.
That's how you shutdown any discussion.
- swayvil 5y agoThere is a huge difference in substantiality there that I rarely see addressed. When you consume an opinion, expert or otherwise, you are consuming a mere symbol, something of relatively miniscule substance. When you consume a lived experience you are consuming an infinitely dimensioned, infinitely deep thing, of relatively massive substance.
- indymike 5y ago> lived experience >>>> any expert opinion This is why there's a saying in public relations that a story is worth 1000 spreadsheets. What has happened is that people are engaged and persuaded by emotion, and media has evolved to service this.
- throwhauser 5y agoBezos has noticed an adjacent phenomenon. "The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right." When reasoning becomes too abstract, it's more likely to fail to account for things happening in the real world.