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Re:The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated by garbagetime on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:05PM (#33338866)
Your comment would be equally or more effective without this sentence:

>You seem to be completely unfamiliar with the research in the field.

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Re:The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:45AM (#33340547)
I disagree. When a comment is sufficiently wrong, it's useful to underscore that.
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Re:The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated by garbagetime on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @04:17AM (#33341094)
If a user wishes to underscore that a comment he is replying to is wrong, then he should do just that. There is no need for the user to attack the person making the comment.
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Re:The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:00PM (#33347194)
Calling someone "completely unfamiliar" is not much of an attack. I don't think it's any worse than saying the comment is "completely wrong", but it gets the point across slightly better.
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Re:The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated by xyzzyz on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @05:22PM (#33349665)
I was being charitable here. The less charitable alternative is that the person I was responding to was familiar with the literature, but nevertheless engaged in willful deception.
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