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Yes, Your Opinion Can Be Wrong | Houston Press - 2 views

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shared by manleyda on 26 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • simply saying, "This is my opinion" does not preclude a connected statement from being dead wrong.
  • before you crouch behind your Shield of Opinion, you need to ask yourself two questions.1. Is this actually an opinion?2. If it is an opinion how informed is it and why do I hold it?
  • I’ll help you with the first part. An opinion is a preference for or judgment of something. My favorite color is black. I think mint tastes awful. Doctor Who is the best television show. These are all opinions.
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  • There’s nothing wrong with an opinion on those things. The problem comes from people whose opinions are actually misconceptions
  • If you think vaccines cause autism you are expressing something factually wrong, not an opinion
  • That’s where the second question comes in; is your opinion informed and why do you believe it?
  • What mucks it all up is when a narrow set of information is assumed to be wider than it is. There is a difference between a belief and things you just didn’t know
  • eventually you are going to venture out into the world and find that what you thought was an informed opinion was actually just a tiny thought based on little data and your feelings
  • manleyda on 26 Oct 16
     
    Thought this article was interesting because it shows how people often just pass a claim off as 'their opinion.' We tend to think that this makes the claim indisputable because it's a personal perspective. In reality there can be many things wrong with a so-called opinion. (Danny, 10/25/16)
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