Even more annoying is the book's penchant for cheerleading with unqualified assertions like, "The kids have got it right".
For a young researcher considering a step beyond the realm of academia, worrying assertions like this are hard to avoid.
Other highlights of the conversation included multiple statements that began with "Rape is bad, but…" and assertions like, "You can overcome abuse, but you can't overcome having your reputation squashed". .
My guess is that in the pre-Internet era, an assertion like that would simply have sat there; economists would complain about it in the coffee room, but that would be it.
Colonel Okeidi said that about 50 Syrian soldiers had been captured, including a colonel — an assertion, like the others involving the death toll, that could not be independently verified.
It was called "Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies", and the assertion went like this: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one".
A simple assertion like "you can't go home, you're not cooperating" could lead the accused to imagine that cooperation would bring freedom.
Financially, the accusations against the Kids Company are confusing because they are diffuse – a mixture of the open and the tacit, the illegal and the simply not done, intimation crossing assertion like smoke in a saloon bar.
My assertion, like Edel's, is fundamentally untestable; if I'm wrong, who's to say? Playing detective games can be fun, but what we really want — full intimacy or knowingness — eludes us.
Much of the argument revolved around whether reasonable investors would want to know about false and outlandish assertions like the one about Satanism so long as the assertions might affect the price of securities.
