It's a piece of advice I was given many, many years ago now.
The advice is to be clear and not vague in what you say and to stand by what you say.
Nov. 28, 2024
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No problem with "...clear and not vague..", but not so sure about "...stand by what you say" without any caveats. What if you subsequently learn something new and realise what you said may not have been completely correct?
Tim
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And my opinion is that studying, learning and practicing has been invaluable to me in giving me a more objective and open minded approach. I have learnt just how blinkered a dogmatic opinion can be, and just how much confirmation bias and the desire to confirm a viewpoint as absolute truth literally reduces the range of vision to the limits of a viewpoint. It doesn't make me more superior, just allows us to see the nature of the human condition and gives us a glimpse of how people really see photos and just how abstracted that view can be compared to the photo itself.
It is still nothing more that a justification for confirmation bias.
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We'll just have to disagree on this one.
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I take it to mean stand by what you say at the time of saying it.
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This is getting very off topic
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Heard and agreed.
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GB wrote: Especially true is that posting corrections to others' incorrect responses (either in part or full) is absolutely "unnecessary" and unwanted. In short, correcting misinformation is no different than spam since, as already stated, everyone already knows, anyway.
I quite like that. So, if someone posts "false" information and if everyone or, say 95%, of us knows the truth, rebutting the perp is a waste of time and effort!
