Per Vognsen on Nostr: npub1a4cfq…qt2kf Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are really bad about this but in a ...

npub1a4cfqcj5cq9qauuzz33rqq63kudnu6k7x4fe4xep93s7lu5hgk3szqt2kf (npub1a4c…t2kf) Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are really bad about this but in a different direction than the Jack Reacher example. It's all about Holmes seizing on some hyper-specific, easily missed detail and pretending that you can reconstruct everything from that. I actually hate that way more and it's prevalent in a lot of criminal forensics in pop culture, e.g. blood spatter analysis in Dexter.