Post #1261262
2026-03-24 18:01 UTC
@kevlin Would statements like "over 10 new features" fall into this category? It's an intentionally imprecise statement in the hope that a gullible reader/listener might think the actual number is 90, when of course the number is 11.
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@kevlin@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 18:29
@kevin It's a related but slightly different category: that of misleading approximations. Rather than providing needless precision, the answer is accurate, but overly suggestive, playing unreasonably with someone's reasonable expectations.