In Reply to: The problem is that the measurements don't always reflect posted by Ralph on August 19, 2015 at 08:52:41:
The problem of just listening is you can fool yourself way too easily. Listening is vulnerable to circular reasoning. A great old English reviewer, Percy Wilson, was fond of a story called the Zanzibar Fallacy to describe this.
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- RE: The problem is that the measurements don't always reflect - hahax@verizon.net 09:32:12 08/19/15 (16)
- RE: The problem is that the measurements don't always reflect - ahendler 19:11:44 08/20/15 (1)
- RE: The problem is that the measurements don't always reflect - hahax@verizon.net 19:58:22 08/20/15 (0)
- Fooling yourself... - mkuller 11:39:01 08/19/15 (11)
- RE: Fooling yourself... - hahax@verizon.net 20:41:17 08/19/15 (9)
- RE: Fooling yourself... - mkuller 20:45:00 08/19/15 (8)
- +1 (nt) - 4everyoung 10:30:05 08/21/15 (0)
- RE: Fooling yourself... - hahax@verizon.net 08:37:52 08/20/15 (6)
- RE: Fooling yourself... - mkuller 10:00:18 08/20/15 (5)
- And such things - E-Stat 14:26:01 08/21/15 (0)
- RE: Fooling yourself... - hahax@verizon.net 16:23:17 08/20/15 (3)
- RE: Fooling yourself... - mkuller 11:06:29 08/21/15 (2)
- RE: Fooling yourself...err Not - A.Wayne 11:16:02 08/21/15 (1)
- Still Fooling yourself... - mkuller 12:48:54 08/21/15 (0)
- RE: Fooling yourself... - b.l.zeebub 15:24:57 08/19/15 (0)
- I certainly agree, but at the same time we need better measurements! - Ralph 10:59:50 08/19/15 (1)
- RE: I certainly agree, but at the same time we need better measurements! - hahax@verizon.net 20:47:41 08/19/15 (0)