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"This Twitter chap" is a journalist at the Financial Times and is a senior fellow at the London School of Economics. He's not just some rando bashing government
by M2Ys4U 4y ago
"This Twitter chap" is a journalist at the Financial Times and is a senior fellow at the London School of Economics. He's not just some rando bashing government...
- jokethrowaway 4y agoLogical Fallacy: Appeal to Authority I would trust a rando more than a journalist these days
- M2Ys4U 4y ago> Logical Fallacy: Appeal to Authority It's putting the source in the proper context.
- ben_w 4y agoEven though I frequently make note of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, I'd still rate journalists higher than randos.
- nobody9999 4y agoYou might want to check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise https://www.c-span.org/video/?426290-1/tom-nichols-discusses-the-death-expertise https://www.c-span.org/video/?426290-1/tom-nichols-discusses... Unrelated, but the second link also provides the best definition of fake news I've ever heard.
- simonswords82 4y agoSo you're saying as a result of these two positions that he holds he cannot possibly be wrong and I should blindly trust anything he says so long as he shows some workings?
- M2Ys4U 4y agoNo, I am not saying that. I'm saying that you shouldn't dismiss what he's saying because he posted it on Twitter and/or because (you feel that) people are bashing the government. He's a journalist at a well-respected newspaper, who has practical and academic experience using and interpreting data for his journalism, communicating his story in accessible way (both accessible in a pedagogical way and because the FT has a paywall). Engage with what he's posted and evaluate it on its merits, not just dismissing it because it's a Twitter thread containing a viewpoint that you don't want to be true.
- DanBC 4y agoYou don't have to blindly trust him, but so far he's provided a bunch of data to support his position and you've provided nothing. Show me the data.
- dredmorbius 4y agoYour initial comment strongly suggested distrusting the information strictly based on the source, "this Twitter chap". Reputation isn't everything. But it's a useful guide.