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It's annoying that 'don't ask me for sources because I want you to read sources without any possible bias from my pre-filtering of sources that support my point' and 'don't ask me for sources because I just made this up' are indistinguishable from the outside.
@david_chisnall not really, like you just did it.
But commonly von the Internet it is i don't turst you.
Like from a statistics point it makes sense to me that the internet is a place of distrust. It is a pretty good example that we are not as unison as we make kids/students think.
Or do you mean at work or smaller circles?
@david_chisnall you can't ask people to do their own research without sounding like one of those people who claims to have "done their own research".
Exactly. I don't like giving people sources because I have read a subset of things in the field (even fields I actively work in) and the sources I give them will be a subset of those. There may be strong counterarguments that I've entirely missed and, if they find such a thing from a reputable source, we both learn something. If I just give them a subset of things, they will see things that support my view and neither of us really gets more than if they just believed me.
There's little difference between trusting me to faithfully report on the contents of sources I've read and distilled and trusting me to not cherry pick a bunch of sources that support my point. I'd much rather people didn't do either, but if they're going to do the latter then they may as well do the former: it's less effort for both of us and has the same outcome.
But I also don't want to sound like the 'I did my own research' people.
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