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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Dolphin
From:       Esben Mose Hansen <kde () mosehansen ! dk>
Date:       2007-10-10 9:55:17
Message-ID: 200710101155.17597.kde () mosehansen ! dk
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On Wednesday October 10 2007 11:21:03 Calum Morrell wrote:
> Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> > Ah, the "no true scotsman" fallacy right on the usability list :) How
> > cute!
>
> Feel like explaining this one to a Scotsman?

Well, wikipedia has an article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

which includes this example

Argument: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
Reply: "But my uncle Angus, who is a Scotsman, likes sugar with his porridge."
Rebuttal: "Aye, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

In the above case, it was a "normal windows user" who would never install a 
file manager (I have seen some do this, mostly to get a norton commander-like 
interface btw). If, the author contends, the user does this /anyway/ the user 
is not a "true" normal user.

-- 
regards, Esben

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