9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choose Your Own Adventure [pdf]

Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by mainecoder on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:57AM (#45347989)

Proof by analogy is fraud" - Bjarne Stroustrup Yes; page 692 of TC++PL. A good analogy is an excellent way of illustrating an idea, but far too often such analogies are not accompanied by solid reasoning, data, etc

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Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by latexr on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @12:00PM (#45348888)

Analogies are seldom perfect but they are often useful. They help to illustrate a point. The world is not a programming language and most things can’t be ascertained by mathematical proofs.

But all that is irrelevant because what I posted above wasn’t an analogy. It was… A thought experiment? A purposefully exaggerated example? Anyway, not an analogy. Analogies compare two different things via a third thing they have in common, but here I used examples which are directly related to the subject matter. The point was to make it clear, via extreme but realistic examples, that correlation does not imply causation.

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Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by triceratops on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @04:17PM (#45352221)

You're responding to an example not an analogy.

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