Posted by dorayme on 10/22/05 04:29

> From: Travis Newbury <travisenwbury@hotmail.com>
>
> Neredbojias <neredbojias@neredbojias.com> said:
>>> How do you know this? Do you have a reference that can show
>>> that is true?
>> Oh, here we go: the typical newsgroup logic/prove-it thing.
>> I know it because I have seen it and lived it.
>
> Anicdotal data is meaningless. I have seen the opposite, therefore I
> am right?
>
>> In most cases, it's just
>> another opinion which has at least the same probability of being
>> wrong as any other opinion.
>
> I agree with that.

You shouldn't have. A "a reference that can show that [it] is true" cannot
possibly be "just another opinion which has at least the same probability of
being wrong as any other opinion".

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dorayme

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