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Right. So the question then is not whether the premise is correct or not, but whether the information Sam is putting out is accurate, which is a different thing
by tvladeck 13y ago
Right. So the question then is not whether the premise is correct or not, but whether the information Sam is putting out is accurate, which is a different thing entirely.
- ghaff 13y agoSo you really need some sort of statistical study. (Which is hard/expensive/time-consuming in a context like this.) Otherwise you're arguing by anecdote. Which isn't necessarily bad. Most arguments of this sort are. But they're vulnerable to this counterargument.