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Post by lollygagger on Dec 15, 2016 13:14:34 GMT
If conflicting advice is offered, Ithink you have to credit people with the intelligence to work out who to trust, or to question why the advice conflicts themselves, or to do further reading elsewhere. I doubt there are many if any who follow any advice to the letter without questioning at least in private.
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 15, 2016 13:15:25 GMT
It certainly helps nobody when it turns into a spiteful spat.
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Post by tonyqj on Dec 15, 2016 13:23:00 GMT
If conflicting advice is offered, Ithink you have to credit people with the intelligence to work out who to trust, or to question why the advice conflicts themselves, or to do further reading elsewhere. I doubt there are many if any who follow any advice to the letter without questioning at least in private. Okay, so let's say I wrote.... " We all know that Smartgauge doesn't tell you the size of your battery, only how full it is. So if the capacity has reduced to 70% of the original, Smartgauge will still tell you that it's at 100% even though you only have 70% of the 'as new' capacity available. Now if you only charge your battery to 90%, then when you start discharging, Smartgauge will call that 100% because it doesn't know any different. If you only charge to 90% the next time, then that's actually 90% of 90% - 81%, and Smartgauge will call that 100%. In no time at all you'll be down to 50% capacity and that's why it's important to charge to 100% and why Smartgauge isn't the useful tool that some people think it is." ... would you think that's believable? Where would you Google to find out if it's correct or not? Let me tell you now that it's complete and utter garbage. Total rot. Nevertheless that view has been posted and argued about on more than one occasion. Tony |
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Post by tonyb on Dec 15, 2016 14:13:45 GMT
If conflicting advice is offered, Ithink you have to credit people with the intelligence to work out who to trust, or to question why the advice conflicts themselves, or to do further reading elsewhere. I doubt there are many if any who follow any advice to the letter without questioning at least in private. My experiences suggests to me that this is all too often incorrect. There are many people who do not act in this way and double check things - even if they knew how to or understood what they are reading. I thought I would add to this. Advertising, especially TV advertising must be felt to work otherwise brands would not spend so much money on it. Now, if you study the adverts they are in fact every misleading. The words do not quiet mean what the advert wants you to believe they do. For example 85% of dentists recommend xxxx when careful scrutiny for hard to read print shows its on;y 85% of a sample that is probably an insignificant portion of the population (even of dentists). Then we have paper and periodical advertising where we have implied health claims without any evidence to back it up. I am sure most members here can think up even more examples. Unless out companies are stupid and like throwing money away these things must work so I fear we have to conclude there are many not very bright people around who seem not to have the intelligence to work things out. How else do you account for the popularity of branded apparel where people happily pay to advertise products for the manufacturer? |
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