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| Gregg:
How much training would it take for someone with a degree in gender studies to become an engineer? :palm: What we really could use is training of journalists to actually fact check in depth before publicly announcing their opinions. |O |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Gregg on December 21, 2020, 09:36:56 pm ---How much training would it take for someone with a degree in gender studies to become an engineer? :palm: What we really could use is training of journalists to actually fact check in depth before publicly announcing their opinions. |O --- End quote --- You've got a bit of a problem there because opinions are opinions, and facts are facts. Fact checking opinions doesn't make sense, unless one happens to have confused one's own opinions with fact, when it still doesn't make sense, but at least it has a diagnosis. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on December 21, 2020, 11:26:58 pm --- --- Quote from: Gregg on December 21, 2020, 09:36:56 pm ---How much training would it take for someone with a degree in gender studies to become an engineer? :palm: What we really could use is training of journalists to actually fact check in depth before publicly announcing their opinions. |O --- End quote --- You've got a bit of a problem there because opinions are opinions, and facts are facts. Fact checking opinions doesn't make sense, unless one happens to have confused one's own opinions with fact, when it still doesn't make sense, but at least it has a diagnosis. --- End quote --- There are many poorly thought out opinions expressed in the media which would be shot down by some elementary fact checking. e.g. The opinion that X should stop doing Y will easily be crushed by finding that X has never done Y. |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: coppice on December 21, 2020, 11:49:40 pm ---There are many poorly thought out opinions expressed in the media which would be shot down by some elementary fact checking. e.g. The opinion that X should stop doing Y will easily be crushed by finding that X has never done Y. --- End quote --- That's a demand, not an opinion. "Your shirt is ugly" is an opinion, "You need to stop beating your wife", is a demand and the question "When did you stop beating your wife?" is a dirty trick. |
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