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How often do you reckon you're wrong? How often do you admit you're mistaken? (pg. 2)
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| igottaknow |
| i'm never not wrong |
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| Rodrico |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Well, why? You can't get it right all the time, can you? ;) |
Not even God can get it right all the time. But I'm pretty sure I have so far.
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| SYSTEM-J |
| I'm a lot happier to admit to being factually wrong than logically wrong. If I've got a piece of information wrong, whether through misinformation, assumption or whatever I'll admit it. If my reasoning is bad... I'm not very good at admitting that to myself. |
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| Chris Crossland |
I have no problem admitting I'm wrong. I don't get why people have such a hard time dealing with it, man the up!
I'm usually right when in conversation because I don't guess. If I do, afterward I say "I could be wrong" or "Don't quote me on that". I figure if you don't know what you're talking about, why spit lies?
My sister is the worst. SHE'S NEVER ING WRONG! I tell her shes is and she gets pissed off. Then I SHOW her she's wrong and gets even more pissed and becomes some sort of flying creature. Just because my sister can't admit that she's wrong, I go out of my way just to prove she is. I can't ing stand people like that. |
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by Chris Crossland
ff. Then I SHOW her she's wrong and gets even more pissed and becomes some sort of flying creature. |
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| cmay119 |
I'm confident yet uncertain on a lot of stuff I talk about, so when talking with other people I usually phrase what I think is right in the form of a question, as to not imply that I know what I'm talking about.
On history for example:
Instead of saying: The sinking of the Lusitania was the key factor that brought the United States into World War I.
I'd Say: Wasn't it the sinking of the Lusitania that brought the US into World War I?
I'm not very confrontational, so I like to avoid the right/wrong arguments. This method has worked pretty well for me in the past. :) |
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| Domesticated |
I'm wrong a lot more often than I'd like to be. I'd say I'm probably wrong as often as I'm right. It's pretty disheartening to know that in the test of life, I'm only scoring 50%.
However, I like to learn new things and I try to admit when I'm wrong so that I can better myself.
For example, when faced with the Monty Hall problem (link) a lot of people will refuse to believe they're incorrect, and then refuse to listen to an explanation why. When I first heard it, I too thought I was correct, but I sat through the explanation and I'm now better off. |
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| EddieZilker |
I especially dislike being wrong. When I come out on a position in an internet forum, I will almost always make sure I can support it with information I know to be correct. If I find a flaw with the information I was using (such as recently in the Music Production Forum) I will acknowledge that flaw and move on.
I had quite an interest in logical fallacies a while back. Usually, when I see an argument constructed using one or more of these, I can immediately tell the person using them is wrong. It's amazing how many people I've read which seem to think in logical fallacy. What's more is that it's a tell; a dead give-away that a belief fundamental to their thesis is just dead wrong. It doesn't take too much drilling down to find out what that belief is and over-turn it.
On the rare occasion where I don't know what I'm talking about, I'll admit to being uninformed on an issue. I try and always know who's an expert on whatever field I might be speaking to and if they pipe up on something I am wrong about, I'll immediately cop to it. Usually, I learn something from that, anyway.
My girlfriend, on the other hand, is frequently confronted with incontrovertible evidence that I am nothing more than a high-functioning idiot. I do most of the cooking, for instance, and sometimes I'll get bored with a recipe and make an impromptu revision with it. Infrequently, these revisions work out quite well and are incorporated into the recipe. When that fails to occur, however, I am confronted with a monumental culinary flop which only reinforces her admonishment that I am not "Anthony ing Bourdain" and I don't have a show on The Travel Channel.
I had an epiphany a while back which basically fostered a belief that all conflict is based in fallacy. Simply stated, regardless of where the conflict occurs be it with an individual, such as in mental illness, between two or more individuals from a school yard fight to full-scale wars; there is usually far more than one belief which is fundamentally wrong that has fostered the conflict, to begin with. When I get into an argument with my girlfriend, I always try and find out what the truth to the issue is and this, for the most part, seems to keep things right between us. |
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| Esiotrat |
Whenever I'm wrong, I admit it.
Whenever I'm right, I shut up. |
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| Renzo |
| I'll let you know when I'm wrong. |
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| Schadenfreude |
| you are always right when everything else around you exists solely because you do.:p |
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| Omega_Blue |
| i don't like being wrong, but if i am, i'll admit to it. i don't like being wrong though. most people i know (and especially work with) are even worse- they're never wrong, even when their idiocy is staring them right in the face, so to speak |
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