"**Unless the source of the statement has extremely high qualifications, the statement will be more revealing of the author than the information intended by him**. This applies, of course, to matters of judgment. A book review, good or bad, **can be far more descriptive of the reviewer than informational about the book itself**. This mechanism I also call [[Wittgenstein]]’s ruler: **Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[wittgensteins-ruler]], [[humility]], [[epistomelogical-challenge]], **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]