This post is probably nothing new probably contains lots of mistakes. I am not an expert on any of this stuff,
Why? I immediately closed the post upon reading it. I usually don’t react that strongly but it was the last on my reading list for today and I am kind of tired. But I noticed my strong reaction and thought: Something is wrong here. If I react that strong on that cue by being tired, then the same effect but weaker will be working on most readers and prime them negatively or turn a fraction away.
If I was interested in controlling how people treat what I may be writing, or send certain kind of social signals then it would be useful to remove the first sentence. I know I am a layman, despite I do think that I understand this kind of stuff reasonably well, a lot better than the average people do, but still it would be inappropriate to represent this stuff as a person who has done extensive research on the matter or has some kind of qualification for it. I think it’s ok to represent things in an uncertain manner, especially when there are good reasons for that.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
You definitely should remove the first sentence
Why? I immediately closed the post upon reading it. I usually don’t react that strongly but it was the last on my reading list for today and I am kind of tired. But I noticed my strong reaction and thought: Something is wrong here. If I react that strong on that cue by being tired, then the same effect but weaker will be working on most readers and prime them negatively or turn a fraction away.
Score one for truth in advertising?
“You definitely should remove the first sentence”
If I was interested in controlling how people treat what I may be writing, or send certain kind of social signals then it would be useful to remove the first sentence. I know I am a layman, despite I do think that I understand this kind of stuff reasonably well, a lot better than the average people do, but still it would be inappropriate to represent this stuff as a person who has done extensive research on the matter or has some kind of qualification for it. I think it’s ok to represent things in an uncertain manner, especially when there are good reasons for that.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
The problem with that statement isn’t the substance. It’s the jarringly ungrammatical sentence structure.