You may have been socially taught to believe that—to trust your direct opinions or the median from your direct friends—but in terms of rationality—the philosophy of being the least wrong—your strategy is suboptimal. Only by collecting big n data can you ever really “know” anything.
So you may find it emotionally insulting but at the end of the day correctness matters.
This kind of reply is ridiculous and insulting.
You may have been socially taught to believe that—to trust your direct opinions or the median from your direct friends—but in terms of rationality—the philosophy of being the least wrong—your strategy is suboptimal. Only by collecting big n data can you ever really “know” anything.
So you may find it emotionally insulting but at the end of the day correctness matters.