http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Backfire effect en Sun, 31 May 2026 16:58:26 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18057#post-258243 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:51:27 +0000 gembo 258243@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hey SRD tell your friend you cannot generalise from one salient exemplar.</p> <p>Thus whilst his or her observations are very real to her or him they are nothing but one data point. Is he or she called Bishop Berkley? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18057#post-258237 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:20:22 +0000 Min 258237@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very good though aimed at US (I am not bothered about George Washington and I already knew that about Napoleon) but I got the point. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18057#post-258217 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:08:13 +0000 SRD 258217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This made me think of my argument yesterday with my friend, who just reacted worse and worse, the more data i gave her (even though she was the one insisting on data). Refused to accept TfL etc data on numbers of cyclists in London because it didn't correspond with her 'observations' as someone who lived there.</p> <p><a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe" rel="nofollow">http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe</a> </p>