On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 8:57:37 AM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel
wrote:
On 9/11/19 2:18 AM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote:
> Feel free to ignore any such wording that you disagree with. We don't need
> to agree in order to discuss such things, and it's alright if we disagree
> on wording. Literally every user I talk to has asked me either how to
> disable the hot corner, or asked me to do it for them. I obviously did
> not mean "everybody" literally, but it's even fine if you take it
> literally, given the context.
Please consider the possibility of a cognitive bias. Of course everyone
you talk to? agrees with your preferences: after all, they just came to
you for help. They know you are technically savvy and opinionated, so
they seeked you, and so it's possible that all y'all gerrymandered
yourselves into thinking that 'literally every user' shares your belief,
even though it's statistically rather improbable.
This is a know phenomenon in social sciences: see a good writeup here
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02562-z
By the way, speaking for myself, I decided to stop using the term
'literally', because I don't want to be AWFUL (American Who Figuratively
Use Literally :).
See the last sentence :)
I obviously did not mean "everybody" literally, but
it's even fine if you
take it literally, given the context.
The part making that a true statment being "given the context".
Additionally, I don't tend to use the word "literally" unless it actually
applies. I agree, except for "American" being part of that.
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John Harris