That’s a kinder description than I gave it in my next paragraph, so thanks I suppose.

I do think it is an under-emphasized aspect of honesty, though, that we should be clear about our level of experience/understanding. Especially online — people like to discuss things, even (especially?) when we are just getting started. So if we’ve picked up opinions through osmosis and we start repeating them without testing them, we’re really just amplifying some possibly-incorrect viewpoint (and if we’ve picked it up, there’s a good chance it is already widespread in the community, which is bad if it is wrong).

And I mean, more concretely a measurement is not complete without the error bars!

Often this doesn’t really matter, because it is just chit-chat anyway. But it is nice to keep in mind.