On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 8:57:37 AM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > On 9/11/19 2:18 AM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > Feel free to ignore any such wording that you disagree with. We don't need > > to agree in order to discuss such things, and it's alright if we disagree > > on wording. Literally every user I talk to has asked me either how to > > disable the hot corner, or asked me to do it for them. I obviously did > > not mean "everybody" literally, but it's even fine if you take it > > literally, given the context. > > Please consider the possibility of a cognitive bias. Of course everyone > you talk to? agrees with your preferences: after all, they just came to > you for help. They know you are technically savvy and opinionated, so > they seeked you, and so it's possible that all y'all gerrymandered > yourselves into thinking that 'literally every user' shares your belief, > even though it's statistically rather improbable. > > This is a know phenomenon in social sciences: see a good writeup here > https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02562-z > > By the way, speaking for myself, I decided to stop using the term > 'literally', because I don't want to be AWFUL (American Who Figuratively > Use Literally :). See the last sentence :) > I obviously did not mean "everybody" literally, but it's even fine if you > take it literally, given the context. The part making that a true statment being "given the context". Additionally, I don't tend to use the word "literally" unless it actually applies. I agree, except for "American" being part of that. - - John Harris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
