Frank_Hirsch comments on The Quotation is not the Referent - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 March 2008 12:53AM

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Comment author: Frank_Hirsch 13 March 2008 11:00:33PM 7 points [-]

I know a really bad one which nearly turned my stomach: Some newspaper wrote "Survey uncovers that X's have the property Y!" (I forget the details). I read the article and it turned out that, according to some survey, most people believe that X's have the property Y. Argh!