10-17-2019, 11:27 AM | #46 |
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So what is your definition of cherry pick? That's the most common usage for cherry picking that I've seen - only use facts or data points that match your thesis.
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For example, Eliot received it for his poetry, not criticism or plays, and I believe the rationale for Galsworthy, Raymont and some others mentioned specific novels of theirs. They make it up as they go along. |
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Applies. It will take time to fix it, but it is against your wishes if you don't want the Nobel Prize to (re)gain importance. |
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Let's see now, you try to throw up straw men then claim that I went out of my way to set myself up to be misinterpreted? Maybe you need to look in a mirror and ask yourself why you spent so much effort hurling yourself at a conclusion about what I meant without confirming it one way or the other. I think that my first post was quite clear. I questioned if the Nobel prize was the most important event in literature [note that I did not say it was not, I questioned if it was. A very deliberate distinction]. Then I gave two examples of why it didn't appear to be. I was not trying to write a thesis or build a case, I was simply questioning if a statement was true or not. Perhaps a more productive tact might be simply to say why you think that it is indeed the most important event in literature, if that is what you think, and engage in a discussion, rather than go into standard internet attack mode. |
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