(September 20, 2010 at 1:43 am)blood_pardon Wrote: You can put it away in your own mind but when it comes to telling someone that there personal expiriences are in fact lies or delusions your arguments are unwarranted.
anecdotal evidence is not evidence.
There is one sort of evidence that is used in court that is wrong in 60% of cases.
That evidence is eyewitness evidence.
This is error on a level that is more than random chance.
The cause is that peoples perceptions are easily led astray and incorrect memories created, peoples prejudices come into play as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_identification
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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