taryneast comments on Narrow your answer space - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taryneast 03 January 2011 08:17:30PM 2 points [-]

In my own case - the gentle steering was far more effective than the head-beating.

IMO there is no way that I would have gone off course with "here is a link showing you a proof of why X is not true" (where X is what I originally claimed) yet is was gentle enough for me to be quite happy to go off and read said link and find out for myself.