He says there will be one. Let him come with a timetable.
You’re trying to trap him into a specific falsifiable statement when what’s really happening is that you made your own (very open-ended) prediction
Yet very easy to refute. If there's a draft tomorrow, you can call me wrong. If there's a draft 10 years from now, you can call me wrong. I'd like him to put himself on the spot as well.
it doesn’t erase that your own assertion could prove wrong on a slightly longer one.
Me, wrong? Impossible!
Of course I 'could be' wrong. But I won't be, because odds are so tiny. I'm trying to trap him in making a confident assertion about something that extremely unlikely, which is his wont.
Imp is a nutball, but he’s right that you’re potentially wrong here.
Hate to use the Nate Silver defense, but odds matter.
He says there will be one. Let him come with a timetable.
Yet very easy to refute. If there's a draft tomorrow, you can call me wrong. If there's a draft 10 years from now, you can call me wrong. I'd like him to put himself on the spot as well.
Me, wrong? Impossible!
Of course I 'could be' wrong. But I won't be, because odds are so tiny. I'm trying to trap him in making a confident assertion about something that extremely unlikely, which is his wont.
Hate to use the Nate Silver defense, but odds matter.
I'm quite confident saying 'ever'. I'll be wrong if there is an alien invasion, but c'est la vie'.
Is he?