questions: opinion vs. fact?
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Opinion.\n\nFacts can be looked up by anyone. They are not as fun. All you have to do is copy and paste the wiki article.\n\nOpinions give you a chance to express your unique (or not-so-unique) point of view.
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Is this question True or False, or Multiple Choice?
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Differing opinions due to ignorance.Past ,present and future it will still be due to this!
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Understanding the question
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Question needs to be cohesive.
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Is there a difference?
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Both sides like to throw around the "stupid" label. Labels are just that: stupid. I had a little disagreement with a guy earlier about WMD's in Iraq. He went on to post a bunch of sites that backed up his claims. Of course, he had only read the headline, the actual story disputed everything he said.\n\nI wouldn't read too much into it. People let their fingers get ahead of their brain. If you do a search for questions that include the term "cite sources" you will see that most of the respondents don't. It's not stupidity. Most are just offended that either you don't agree or you DARE to question them.\n\nI agree with sunshine. The majority of what you see here is personal opinion, not documented facts. Does my personal opinion have any less weight than anyone elses simply because they do not agree with it?
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It's better to give a dumb answer to a stupid question than to give a stupid answer to a good question. BTW, is this a stupid or a good one?
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to be or not to be that is the question
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for factual or objective questions, i'll close it out as soon as i get an answer with a link or two that i can use to verify it. with more subjective questions or things along a suggestive nature, i'll leave it open until i get one that i'm satified with. currently, that's no more than a week, but i think after more people start to use this, i may wait longer.
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I had a professor who was always very adamant that you could not prove the hypothesis. Something about you don't actually test the hypothesis, you test the question....or somehting. He was very odd. I think there's a difference between a hypothesis and fact.
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I think that some questions stir something inside of us.Some questions are controversial,while others are not.Some questions are easily answered while others are answered by text book explanations.Hmmmm I wonder how many answers this question will get?
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Yes. Not all of it is true (factual, historical), not all of it is false (fictional, mythical).\n\nCan you handle the truth? or the falsity?
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Majority does not equal truth.\n\nGod rules.
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What you can "know" about the war in Iraq is very varied, depending on what you want to know and who you ask.  The political sides taken in debate banter back and forth with as little intelligence as humanly possible, and they've gotten their nonsense from the liberal media, which is as senseless as anything possible on this planet, so what you perceive to be "knowledge" vs. "opinion" will go far in deciding how learned you feel after you do your research.  In my university graduate research classes, we were stressed to value broad but focused questioning.  Too many open-ended questions left too many dead-end answers, no matter their length.  We also learned about statistical reliability and validity and the allowable statistical variances, but that's getting into questionnaires, etc., and that takes FOREVER to develop, administer, score and analyze.  And even then, interpretation was allowed quite a "margin for error" even though it cautioned the reader as to it's statistical acceptance.  If you really want to know about the war in Iraq, I doubt seriously that this is the place to do any serious research.  From my experience here, there's a lot of uninformed opinion and much less intellect in the majority of answers  you'll get.  Blog's on the internet, etc., aren't much better since no one is held "accountable" for their responses.  They can just  rattle on, which some may say I'm doing now.  Talk to someone(s) away from the internet, face to face if possible, and someone who's main source of "knowledge" isn't the network "news" in order to get a more intelligent and statistically acceptable answer.  Even people you respect for their intelligence are suspect, since they have their opinions which find their way into the dialogue, as did my now deceased father who fought the Japanese at Okinawa in WWII and my son who is in Iraq on his second tour of duty as we speak.  They are both as opinionated as I am, and I guess that genetics since we're father, son, and grandson. Ultimately you have to come to your own conclusions, right or wrong, and be open to new possible understandings as your life goes on.   Debates still rage over the Civil War, and I doubt anyone alive has enough knowlege to fill a thimble, much less a blog or debate despite the goings-on and the "resources" they claim to have.  We still debate the Bay of Pigs incident in Cuba in the 1960's under JFK and the Vietnam war under JFK, LBJ, and RMN.  So ultimately, it's YOUR opinion that counts.  Make it a learned on.  It's so much more pleasant to hear an opinion that someone has given some thought to than one that sounds like they got it off the bathroom wall and are going to copy it on the next stall they're in.  God Bless you.
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Nice generalisation. The sharing of true facts can never harm people, But i do have to kind of agree with you on the reason some of the questions are asked. I would hope that people use common sense and answer the more risky questions with tact and diplomacy, With knowledge comes responsibility
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I'm trying to decide whether to answer this or not.  ; ]