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Do you like playing cards?
Pontoon maybe?
Stick or twist?
Or a bit of Poker perhaps?
Check, bet, call, raise, or fold?
I think of a certain poker call often when someone tries to ‘prove’ their point with us.
We’ll get a reply to one of these blogs – either on email or on social media.
Referencing something that seems to contradict what we say.
And, invariably, it’s a Facebook post.
Or maybe an article on another website.
I had a cracker the other week when someone sent me a link so “help update your knowledge”………….
It was an OK magazine article 🙂
Many of these things what you could call advertorial – dressed up as an article, but designed to sell something referenced in it.
Or, maybe, a Netflix documentary.
“I’ll see your Facebook post and raise you a PubMed published, peer reviewed, large scale study” I feel like saying.
PubMed, if you didn’t know, is The United States National Library of Medicine maintained “database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics”.
Being on there, doesn’t automatically mean it is gospel, of course.
But they are proper, structured studies, on statistically valid population sizes.
That can be accurately repeated to see if the same result is arrived at.
I’d be more than happy to trust widely accepted studies on there then I would what is, essentially, an advert or a documentary.
Again, doesn’t mean it’s definitely right.
Or that the consensus of opinion won’t change over time.
But, I’m more than happy that it’s a safer bet (check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting you’d like to try an approach based on the overwhelming consensus of what consistently works rather than what your mate’s tried).
And, what we share in our blogs, video, etc is, at least, in line with these findings.
If someone else wants to persuade you of a particularly contradictary view, then they should probably try and ‘raise’ with something a little more than a Facebook post, advertorial or documentary 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Pub–>Bed’ Hall and Matt ‘and Chill’ Nicholson
