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Zac Medico schrieb: |
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> One person's common-sense behavioral model is another person's baseless |
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> claim. |
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Claims don't have to be based on data. You can come to a conclusion from |
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experience/knowledge of working/researching/studying in a particular |
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subject, or from opinions of those who did. Or you can say that this is |
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your idea of "common sense". Or your can say that it is derived from |
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your imagination. |
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All these claims are valid and deserve attention, but in a discussion |
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should be clearly labelled as what they are. |
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>> One way to investigate would be to sample statements in the forum |
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>> thread, and determining how many responded with personal preference and |
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>> how many with practical arguments. It would still have to be accounted |
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>> for those who try to rationalize their pre-conceived opinion with ad-hoc |
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>> arguments, but better than nothing at all which is the current case. |
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> Sure, but that seems like more of an academic exercise than a practical |
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> one. I think we'll better of with a judicial approach, where a group of |
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> judges weighs a set of pros and cons. Gentoo's council is the closest |
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> thing to that we have to a judiciary. |
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I have just given an example of what I would have considered data/fact |
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regarding the bias claim. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |