I thought about this in relation to football yesterday, and how people have opinions on matches, teams, players, that they haven't even seen - but as though they had seen them.
I caught myself the other day about to say something about a player, when I realized I'd seen them maybe twice. Was I forming my opinion on what I had seen, or what others said about him? The former is likely too small a sample size to outweigh the latter, but subconsciously I'd rolled them in together. Even regular match going fans don't really see other teams players all that much. How many times have I actually seen Brentford on TV? Yet I have an opinion on Ivan Toney
If I see Brentford play and Toney is terrible/fantastic do I change my opinion based on what would be a significant proportion of the sample size, or do I keep my original opinion and say "well it was just one game"
― anvil, Friday, 10 May 2024 08:20 (two weeks ago) link