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Comment by mint2

3 years ago

Same, the only three I marked as violating the rule were the car, the police and the ambulance. And it told me I agreed with 11% but showed a bar chart showing that basically everyone agreed with me. It was confusing.

Also breaking a rule is fine for an emergency vehicle.

I also took away the opposite of what the author tried to convey.

But I also got a bad impression of their argumentative integrity because they tried to use a strawman to illustrate their point - only it backfired anyway.

An ill defined rule that lacks examples and definition is not a good way to prove people interpret a good faith attempt at rules differently.

And the longer explanation at the end simply dismisses the notion of giving any examples or even trying to give a clear rule by hand waving and basically saying a motivated person can find ambiguity in anything.

So because a rule or law can’t be defined to perfection without the slightest ambiguity then we should just have anarchy? I’m sorry for the bluntness but that’s asinine.

I also got 11%, but I only selected 3 answers that did _not_ violate the rule: The matchbox toy car, the ISS, (and something else).

  • This entire thing is showing that people have different interpretations, you can't resort to "that did _not_ violate the rule" to say that it's super obvious and the only answer.

    • I phrased my answer a bit difficult. What I meant was exactly that, instead of stoplisting a few items, like most people appear to have done, I allow-listed only a few (which is emphasizing the fact that vastly different interpretations exist).

Hah, I got 11% and I selected the car, the police, the ambulance and the tank. Does everyone just get 11% no matter what?

Edit: reading further, yes, everyone gets 11%.