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Haha. This is an illustration of human bias. You can't find a counter point on your own so instead of building a conclusion based off of evidence you call out

Haha. This is an illustration of human bias. You can't find a counter point on your own so instead of building a conclusion based off of evidence you call out to others to provide you with evidence so you can support your desired conclusion.

binoct 3y ago
A more charitable read of the question could be: GP reads a compelling argument about a topic they have little expertise in, and are curious if there are dissenting opinions. We can also talk about how much to trust comments on hacker news generally, but multiple data points from any quality of source are better than one.
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- corethree 3y ago
  This is true. I'm assuming disagreement in general because my post has negative karma. I therefore think it's more realistic to assume that he disagrees. But you're right I could be wrong. Anyway my comment was very general. And I offered a anecdotal counter point. Falsification only needs a single piece of evidence as proof. A single example of a sub contractor who is both cheap and high quality will falsify the general quotation here. There is literally no stronger argument in existence. So not surprised that people can't find a counter point as what I offered is literal proof. Other then dismissing the quality of iPhones coming out of china, At best one can counter by changing the topic of the debate. You could say that in general there's a trend of lower quality associated with lower cost and that while it's not strictly true, it could be generally true. But that's not the argument. In fact on that topic i am not making such a strong claim that it isn't true. For that topic I literally don't know.
  - lostlogin 3y ago
    I agreed with your post, but was confused by the heavy downvoting and wanted to understand what I was missing.
    - corethree 3y ago
      Apologies I thought that response was meant for me rather then an actual request to listen to counter examples.

binoct 3y ago

A more charitable read of the question could be: GP reads a compelling argument about a topic they have little expertise in, and are curious if there are dissenting opinions. We can also talk about how much to trust comments on hacker news generally, but multiple data points from any quality of source are better than one.

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corethree 3y ago
This is true. I'm assuming disagreement in general because my post has negative karma. I therefore think it's more realistic to assume that he disagrees. But you're right I could be wrong. Anyway my comment was very general. And I offered a anecdotal counter point. Falsification only needs a single piece of evidence as proof. A single example of a sub contractor who is both cheap and high quality will falsify the general quotation here. There is literally no stronger argument in existence. So not surprised that people can't find a counter point as what I offered is literal proof. Other then dismissing the quality of iPhones coming out of china, At best one can counter by changing the topic of the debate. You could say that in general there's a trend of lower quality associated with lower cost and that while it's not strictly true, it could be generally true. But that's not the argument. In fact on that topic i am not making such a strong claim that it isn't true. For that topic I literally don't know.
- lostlogin 3y ago
  I agreed with your post, but was confused by the heavy downvoting and wanted to understand what I was missing.
  - corethree 3y ago
    Apologies I thought that response was meant for me rather then an actual request to listen to counter examples.