lived experience >>>> any expert opinion
Or put another way, today N=1 trumps N=1000.
That's how you shutdown any discussion.
Or put another way, today N=1 trumps N=1000.
That's how you shutdown any discussion.
"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right."
When reasoning becomes too abstract, it's more likely to fail to account for things happening in the real world.
This is why there's a saying in public relations that a story is worth 1000 spreadsheets. What has happened is that people are engaged and persuaded by emotion, and media has evolved to service this.
When you consume an opinion, expert or otherwise, you are consuming a mere symbol, something of relatively miniscule substance.
When you consume a lived experience you are consuming an infinitely dimensioned, infinitely deep thing, of relatively massive substance.