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> Appeal to Authority .... When explaining practices or opinions on some subjects of sofware development, project management, operations, e.t.c, people tend to use somebody elses saying, blogpost, conference talk or other claim as a foundation for justification of their own decision.

I consciously do this these days because other people are gullible.

I consciously know "well this isn't balanced", but there is no need to put a disclaimer on that, it just wastes your time and confuses the recipient.

Appeal to Authority works.

[zzzcpan]

Define works. Appeal to authority destroys engineering, scientific, critical thinking and decision making. You can't appeal to authority your way into subject experts, they might even openly criticize you for your bullshit.

[BeetleB]

>Define works. Appeal to authority destroys engineering, scientific, critical thinking and decision making.

Appeal to authority is a tool. Whether it improves or worsens things depends on how it is wielded.

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> You can't appeal to authority your way into subject experts, they might even openly criticize you for your bullshit.

They might, and they might also ignore you without a source because they are so focused on discrediting everyone thats not themselves.

> Define works.

Gets people to more quickly agree with your line of reasoning, by masquerading your line of reasoning as a non-independent thought and simply finding something that agrees with you on Google.

I know that search engines mostly just agree with you. Other people don't.