Originally posted by RayEthier:
Originally posted by xuan768:
Originally posted by woutje:
So the title of this thread is "If DPC hates it you know its different".
Well, I guess your image wasn't that different!!!!! Your average vote was well above 5. As rex mentioned, you finished in the top quartile!!! All that points to DPC actally liking your image. Therefore, the image isn't different. |
Logic error.
The original statement is that "If DPC hates it you know its different." The statement that you used to prove that the image isn't different was not the original statement but the converse of that statement: "If its different then DPC hates it."
Though converses can be true, they can also be false, so you can't just assume the converse to be true. Example: "If it is raining, then I am be sad". The converse would be "If am sad, then it is raining." While it may be metaphorically raining, it is obvious that the converse is false; just because you are sad doesn't mean it rains. Therefore your conclusion is invalid.
Anyways...
EDIT: Adding a smiley face. I just got bored and couldn't resist =D |
Not so.... what the author was advocating is that when one considers all of the data... the correlation to be made is that indeed "DPC did NOT hate the image, but rather that it was viewed in a rather favorable light.
Hence, it could not and did not fit the category and could therefore not be viewed as being hated nor different.
Ray :O) |
I think you made the same logic error.
If we postulate "If DPC hates it, you know its different," it doesn't necessarily mean that "If its different, DPC hates it." Therefore, on the basis of high scores you can't say it isn't different. You are right in saying that it doesn't fit the category of "DPC hating it," but that does not necessarily lead to your second conclusion of the picture as not being different ("...could therefore not be viewed as being hated nor different.") Your conclusion instead should be that based on the given data, you are unable to classify it as different or not.
Vo Child =D
Message edited by author 2005-09-16 22:10:04. |
