AlexSchell comments on Evolution, Sex, and Gender, Not to Mention Research - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexSchell 16 January 2013 11:38:37PM 1 point [-]

This is interesting and suggests that I and the people I talk to about such things are unusual. Do you mean people don't extrapolate from the inaccuracy of such reports, or to they find them to be not too inaccurate?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 January 2013 12:46:01AM 2 points [-]

The people I have in mind say something along the lines of "But the newspaper reports are the only information we have, therefore we have no choice but to believe them".

Comment author: [deleted] 17 January 2013 07:55:36PM 1 point [-]

Mmm, yeah, but even when word-of-mouth is the only information we have, we “have no choice but to believe them” in that sense (assuming they mean something sensible by that phrase in that context).