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Tend to think there is a greater problem with people talking about things they have no 1st hand experience with and coming up with hot air for their articles.
by kaichanvong 15y ago
Tend to think there is a greater problem with people talking about things they have no 1st hand experience with and coming up with hot air for their articles.
But we have to realise the aim of this is to get people to talk about it and question it. Sadly if people do not question the validity the origin of the question comes from then we're all just going to go around talking about what "we think/imagine".
The last point is the greatest danger to us - assumptions.
- kposehn 15y agoVery well put!
- j_baker 15y agoThat's a very big assumption, wouldn't you agree? I agree with what you're saying, but you have to be practical. Verifying things rather than just assuming things based on superficial observation is important. But we simply don't have time to verify everything, as your post demonstrates. So sure, encourage people to verify things instead of spouting off hot air. But realize that superficiality is a necessary evil. Sometimes, you just need to make an inference off of a few observations, and that's ok as long as you realize the inherent limitations of superficiality.
- kposehn 15y agoI do agree that we cannot always challenge the validity of all information we are exposed to. However, in this article I think it is clear the author didn't really do anything to validate his assumptions either, sadly.
- kaichanvong 14y agoTrue, I should have done a full background check on the author to validate that before asserting my assumption. :)