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Originally Posted by retsuki03
What is an opinion worth if a person doesn't know the facts/general information.
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An opinion is an intpretation of facts. But once facts are brought into a discussion around here, they become the ultimate validation of the opinion - yet the interpretation of the fact is invariably distorted.
I could forgo posting opinion and just list a long series of statistics with the thread title "Bush is wrong, here's proof" (in fact, this has already been done on TFP). And the discussion around the statistics will immediately focus on misinterpretation.
So facts become useless.
A discussion around opinions is how you determine how well thought out an opinion happens to be - not the ability to google a random fact and copy and paste it.
And if we're posting phrases to sum up our opinions now, here's my contribution:
98% of all statistics are wrong.