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rolandttg's avatar

I'm going with stupid. My communist nasty sister in law has told me she "will not listen to MY facts". Nobody owns facts. If they are facts, then they are simply that. If not , they are opinions. Told he years ago many NFL games are fixed. She told me I was crazy. Years later, one of her nephews told her the same thing. She was incredulous, but believed him. While she , and many Americans are not inherently stupid, she, and they are willfully stupid. TDS is a perfect example of what I am saying, and she has a terminal case of it.

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Betsy Frost's avatar

When I was in 3rd grade years ago, I have a very vivid memory of being pulled out for some type of testing one on one. A large part of that was composed of a lesson on the definition and differences between fact, inference and opinion followed by a set of various situations that I was asked to identify as one of those above choices. My guess is that is was part of some aptitude/intellegence testing. But it made a huge impression on me at the time. All children should learn to make these distinctions.

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RunningLogic's avatar

If people can have their own facts and science is supposedly based on facts, then that means science can be whatever you want it to be apparently 😑 Which checks out for these people 🙄

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