If you’re a man looking for women, the idea of asking women for advice in love and dating, versus getting advice from men who are successful with women, stand in about the same relation when it comes to the expected practical success.
Understood. However, a couple of people elsewhere in this thread are claiming that I have no business giving advice about online dating without being able to give some evidence that my advice works. Do you disagree with them? Or do you think that it’s inappropriate for me to do so, but appropriate for you to? Or neither?
Depends what you mean by “have no business giving advice.”
Not all advice without evidence is bad advice. There are heuristics we use to figure out which unsupported advice is better than others. Based on some people’s heuristics, like Vladamir_M’s, my unsupported advice would more likely lead to better results (assuming all else equal).
What’s the relevant difference between your advice without evidence and mine? Is it that he already expects advice from men about seeking women to be sound, and more general advice not to be?
I don’t know that there’s any way to pursue ths question without sounding defensive, which is not my intent. I just want to make sure I understand the objections to my post.
Wrote my comment in light of this:
Understood. However, a couple of people elsewhere in this thread are claiming that I have no business giving advice about online dating without being able to give some evidence that my advice works. Do you disagree with them? Or do you think that it’s inappropriate for me to do so, but appropriate for you to? Or neither?
Depends what you mean by “have no business giving advice.”
Not all advice without evidence is bad advice. There are heuristics we use to figure out which unsupported advice is better than others. Based on some people’s heuristics, like Vladamir_M’s, my unsupported advice would more likely lead to better results (assuming all else equal).
What’s the relevant difference between your advice without evidence and mine? Is it that he already expects advice from men about seeking women to be sound, and more general advice not to be?
I don’t know that there’s any way to pursue ths question without sounding defensive, which is not my intent. I just want to make sure I understand the objections to my post.
pwno didn’t seem to imply that his argument applied to his advice and not yours.
Yeah, that’s now clear to me—at this point I’m just curious.