Matt_Simpson comments on Andrew Gelman on "the rhetorical power of anecdotes" - Less Wrong Discussion
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To be clear, the problem isn't that the professors are encouraging action over inaction. It's that they are encouraging students to spend some of their limited amount of action points making things up rather than actually making progress toward solving the problem.