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At 01:04 PM 9/1/96 -0500, Eric K. Meyer wrote:
>
>There's an unfortunate presumption in this world that, to use a
>different example, a Gallup poll is right while someone else's is
>wrong without ever looking at the methodology. It's a classic ad
>hominem logical flaw, predicated on an apparently inability to
>systematically process information and to instead choose heuristic
>means.
I think it has comething to do with putting excessive value
on a brand name. If there is a product from two sources, people
"presume" the branded one is better. In many cases they presume
that because it exists it must be valid. Bad presumption, most
especially in informatin products. Look at the Time coverage of
cyberporn aka Rimm study.
Don
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