Fleur_@aussie.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agoYou always have to analyse a person's internet post about themselves or their life the same way you read a book written with an unreliable narratormessage-squaremessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down13
arrow-up1144arrow-down1message-squareYou always have to analyse a person's internet post about themselves or their life the same way you read a book written with an unreliable narratorFleur_@aussie.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square29linkfedilink
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoThat’s the entire point of citation, repeatable experiment, and peer review. The only way we can ever touch at reliability is cross-referential consensus.
minus-squareTheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoOf course, consensus doesn’t automatically mean truth if the consensers aren’t all being self interrogative and critically thinking.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoCertainly, but it’s the only real starting place
That’s the entire point of citation, repeatable experiment, and peer review. The only way we can ever touch at reliability is cross-referential consensus.
Of course, consensus doesn’t automatically mean truth if the consensers aren’t all being self interrogative and critically thinking.
Certainly, but it’s the only real starting place