Pet peeves
Okay.
I'm sure you've come across this. Someone is trying to make a point in a book or article, and the some form of the following sentence makes an appearence, "And the following, the product of XX years(months/days/hours) of (research, work, tears, etc), shows that blahblahblah."
If you write that trying to convince me of something, my BS detectors suddenly get set to maximum, and I find it very hard to buy into your argument. Why? Because its a fallacy, and a rather insiduous one at that.
Yes, masterpieces are the products of thousands of man hours of work. But just as equally, so is a lot of crap. The fact that you worked hard on your steaming pile of feces does not validate its significance, no matter what your kindegarten teacher says. The fact that you have to rely on a gussed up version of "But I tried! /Really/ hard! Really!" does nothing to reassure me.
Anyway. I had to let that out.
This post is the product of 15 years of painstaking research and analysis. Do not dare to judge it!
Do not dare!
:P
I'm sure you've come across this. Someone is trying to make a point in a book or article, and the some form of the following sentence makes an appearence, "And the following, the product of XX years(months/days/hours) of (research, work, tears, etc), shows that blahblahblah."
If you write that trying to convince me of something, my BS detectors suddenly get set to maximum, and I find it very hard to buy into your argument. Why? Because its a fallacy, and a rather insiduous one at that.
Yes, masterpieces are the products of thousands of man hours of work. But just as equally, so is a lot of crap. The fact that you worked hard on your steaming pile of feces does not validate its significance, no matter what your kindegarten teacher says. The fact that you have to rely on a gussed up version of "But I tried! /Really/ hard! Really!" does nothing to reassure me.
Anyway. I had to let that out.
This post is the product of 15 years of painstaking research and analysis. Do not dare to judge it!
Do not dare!
:P