Robert Roskam

More people should embrace "probably" instead of certainitly.

I recently had someone express nearby me that ADHD is certainly not real, and my immediate reaction was to say, they were certainly wrong. I didn't actually express this because they weren't talking to me.

And upon reflection that reaction itself is wrong. Understandable, but wrong.

They are almost certainly wrong based on current evidence. That is a better framing.

Also for the record, this is what introspection looks like. 😉

Apr 24 at 1:00pmPubler
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@raiderrobert good!

I find accuracy matters but I don't think there's anything wrong with expressing honest certainty.

for a person willing to review evidence and update their position accordingly, any level of certainty is fine. certainty is comforting but not sacrosanct: it's as legitimate to go from total certainty to total uncertainty as it is the other way around.

openness to evidence is what matters. certainty isn't a blocker to that. closed mindedness is. totally different things.