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I think you have hit the nail on the head. This brings to mind one rather long and tedious "discussion" I had on Wikipedia last year that revolved around whethe
by ErrantX 15y ago
I think you have hit the nail on the head. This brings to mind one rather long and tedious "discussion" I had on Wikipedia last year that revolved around whether "above average" was an adequate way to summarise "Overweight and Obese".
Getting across the concept that the latter terms were - in the context of the source - medical definitions and not going to change with the (ill-defined) average, was difficult at best. There was a lot of "but obviously being overweight means you are above average".
I'm not surprised to see others observing the same issue in different contexts.
- masklinn 15y ago> There was a lot of "but obviously being overweight means you are above average". Which obviously makes no sense whatsoever: the one person who gets enough food during a famine is not overweight (could be, but that's independent).
- rapala 15y agoBy my observation, this is pretty common logical fallacy. If from A follows B, many will deduce that from B follows A. This often happens in math, when a lemma says that A => B is true. Many will use the lemma "the wrong way around".