[HN Gopher] 'Evidence Maximalism' Is How the Internet Argues Now
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       'Evidence Maximalism' Is How the Internet Argues Now
        
       Author : SLHamlet
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-02-08 21:17 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | whoswho wrote:
       | SLHamlet I really wish you'd stop posting bottom of the barrel
       | shit from the Atlantic. You want to fix the situation, but you're
       | part of the problem.
        
       | npunt wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/IbwOS
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       | > [Caulfield] has written that all of the information online--
       | news, research, historical documents, opinions--has conditioned
       | people to treat everything as evidence that directly supports
       | their ideological positions on any subject. He calls it the era
       | of "evidence maximalism." It's how we argue online now, and why
       | it's harder than ever to build a shared reality... Caulfield has
       | three rules for evidence maximalism:
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       | > 1. "any small thing can be evidence of my thing"
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       | > 2. "any big thing is always evidence of my big thing"
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       | > 3. "All your evidence against my thing is, on closer
       | inspection, very strong evidence for my thing."
        
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