if you prove someone wrong in a gracious manner and give them space to acknowledge it, odds are quite high you will have earned a tremendous amount of respect in their eyes for two reasons: class and conquest
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Loved you on Cash Cab
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More information is better for me vs More information might expose me to my peers
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I never learned how to fix or do tasks correctly without being instructed that was I was doing was incorrect
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One thing that enrages me about midwits more than it probably should is their inevitable retreat into demanding sources and citations for observations, conclusions or even mere statements of opinion. That way they can pretend to be intellectually superior because scientism.
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I'm very bothered I politely tell someone they're doing something incorrectly and they take it as a personal attack or a judgement on their morals. People get pissed and offended when you tell them Hey you're using the wrench incorrectly
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This is my favorite malice tweet. And it’s highly useful both in discerning who is a midwit and how to diplomatically present truth. The world would be a much better place if a majority could understand and implement this.
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I feel that you are wrong about this.
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Being wrong is more useful because the mechanism of discovery can be applied to discover additional wrongs in unrelated areas
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I learn very little from being correct. I usually learn a lot from making an error.
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