This productivity growth temporarily benefits consumers, but — going back to the false Ford anecdote — where will those consumers come from when household incomes are being negatively impacted by stagnating employment opportunities?
You are performing "routines" - preprocessed conversational gambits or anecdotes (false or true, it doesn't matter) that are shared on the internet, designed to make the speaker seem interesting, funny and respected.
However false Weems-like anecdotes might be, Mr. Lengel argues, they "lent to Washington a degree of vibrancy and three-dimensionality that he might otherwise have lost," whereas more serious scholars, in his view, took "the fun out of Washington and transformed him into a plate of cold fish".
"The answer is a combination of false science, outdated anecdotes, and fearmongering".
A parable is a quirky anecdote, usually false, that future generations will love to retell regardless of its veracity, such as "Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head" or "Archimedes ran naked through the streets shouting 'Eureka!' " or "Einstein disproved cold fusion with the help of Tim Robbins and Meg Ryan".
But instead of embracing these numbers, people who call themselves police supporters seize on anecdotes to push false, unsupported narratives that make cops feel as if they're constantly under fire, that every interaction with a citizen could be their last.
Denying rape culture and sweeping these problems under the rug while pointing to trumped up anecdotes of a false rape reporting crisis might help us feel better, but it does absolutely nothing to help victims or prevent future violence.
He tells anecdotes that are blatantly false.
The writer of the report did not visit the country and based the contentions on anecdotes, press reports and false statements by the opposition, the Taliban said.
To flesh out his theories, Mr. D'Souza tosses out lots of assertions based on false information, partial truths and unrepresentative anecdotes.
