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Man, I just get angry with people this sloppy. How can you write: "Now, Morris is the first to admit that this wasn’t exactly a true scientific experiment, but
by trombone8 11y ago
Man, I just get angry with people this sloppy. How can you write:
"Now, Morris is the first to admit that this wasn’t exactly a true scientific experiment, but you know what? That’s okay! Because the findings are still fascinating."
without dying of embarrassment? It is equivalent to:
"Hey, this next bit might not be true but that doesn't matter because it's a good story!"
Its just offensive to so blatantly mention the unreliability of the findings and then go on to dismiss the notion of uncertainty entirely in the remaining text. Why did he even put in that mention?!
- Aeolun 11y agoJust because it's not a true scientific experiment, that does not necessarily mean that it's uncertain. That said, I'd rather people say this, than that they don't mention any uncertainty at all.
- trombone8 11y agoSimply saying "this is uncertain information" does not absolve the use of "truth" and "prove" without qualifiers as the text does. Except for that mention the text does not act like there are any uncertainty, hence the mention is a simple and dishonest cover-your-ass.