The one thing that stands out for me in this is that it seems to go from the same “figures don’t lie but liars sure can figure” assumption that NTL is much easier fool people with than making stuff up.
But, in my experience, that’s not true. There are indicators when someone is NTL, versus actually being honest, just as I’ve noticed over the years that there are indications when a statistic is being taken out of context.
Most forms of deceit are either very short term, or fall quite rapidly to logic of the form “If this is true as it stands, what else would that imply?”
And maybe that’s my advantage—I’m not entirely sure I consider myself all that principled a person as such, I simply noticed at a very young age that deception doesn’t actually work all that well. Simpler to convince people you are right because you’re actually right and can tell people why.
The one thing that stands out for me in this is that it seems to go from the same “figures don’t lie but liars sure can figure” assumption that NTL is much easier fool people with than making stuff up.
But, in my experience, that’s not true. There are indicators when someone is NTL, versus actually being honest, just as I’ve noticed over the years that there are indications when a statistic is being taken out of context.
Most forms of deceit are either very short term, or fall quite rapidly to logic of the form “If this is true as it stands, what else would that imply?”
And maybe that’s my advantage—I’m not entirely sure I consider myself all that principled a person as such, I simply noticed at a very young age that deception doesn’t actually work all that well. Simpler to convince people you are right because you’re actually right and can tell people why.