Noah's Blog | Reinventing the wheel, because I want to.
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Stupidity is everywhere, and it seems that people don’t quite get how to think. So here are seven things to NOT do if you want to have some shred of intelligence.
7. “Gathering evidence” by reading a bunch of anecdotes off of the Internet.
The logic of science made a great post about why stories and anecdotes are not really scientific evidence. You can see their article here . That post assumes that the people posting those anecdotes are being honest and not just making those stories up. The truth is that stories can be, and frequently are, completely fabricated by propaganda accounts.
Noah's Blog | Reinventing the wheel, because I want to.