• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “I have a huge sample size but I’m not even going to say how large” is not an appropriate response.

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      1 year ago

      Allow me to rephrase for people like you. “I am confident in my research and experience, and I have no desire to explain years of work to the willfully ignorant.”

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        1 year ago

        All kinds of people are confident despite being very wrong. Confidence is not a substitute for evidence. Neither is insulting people.