My advice is
to wonder why you need to do it in the first place.

When you say she is too quick to develop opinions on limited evidence, seems to me that's not something most people would even think about in others. It suggests you are unnecessarily critical.

I mean, if she has read that two snooker players are the worlds worst at [whatever], what exactly is the purpose of spending your time trying to prove her wrong? She just seems to be repeating someone elses opinion, at worst. You're not really even proving her wrong, just whoever wrote whatever she read.

I'm sure she could go and Google everything before she mentioned it to you, to avoid having to be confronted by you. But she doesn't do it because it's a pointless wate of time.

I can see why it would be irritating. If I was her, I'd probably eventually stop talking to you.

Summary: Let it go. Nobody really cares. We are all prone to forming quick opinions on limited evidence. If she's a physicist tasked with making sure a nuclear power station doesn't explode, she needs to be on the ball. If she's just a regular girl who happens to mention some snooker player is a crap safetly player, why does she need to be schooled?
( Not Pineapple anymore, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:45, 1 reply)

It's not that she needs to be "schooled". It's just I'm gonna respond to something someone says if I think there wrong and I'm comfortable doing it. I guess your right in most respects tho
(joeystall, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 10:22, closed)