Reply #71: Also saw a study of something somewhere [View All]

[Bill Bored]

that said the average assessment of a large number of people is very close to the objectively measured truth. I forget if they removed the outliers and used medians instead of the average or what, but you get the drift.

What is so ironic about all this is that intuitively it seems that the machines should be objective and this is why it's so hard to change people's attitudes about them.

How many of us would take the word of a carpenter or carpenters over a measurement by a ruler? But if you can show that the ruler was designed by a building contractor wanting to cut corners, then you might have something!