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Re:Teacher spends two days as a student (2014) by threatofrain on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @11:47AM (#14301007)
-- if you wish to promote a specific vision of gentle relations. However, if you're after information, then you should choose whatever is best for scientific economy. Maybe that takes you down a gentle path, and maybe it doesn't.
Re:Teacher spends two days as a student (2014) by rpenm on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:21PM (#14301317)
It's just a heuristic along the lines of Occam's Razor. Competent malice is less likely than incompetence, all else being equal. Normative motivations are irrelevant.