106: Wright Brothers

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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I'm not sure if this is actually true.

Explanation

Okaaay. First off. If Randall isn't sure anything is true, it needs verification. You can give that by supporting the theorem stated (Wright Brothers periodically switching sides).

Onward to the comic. Cueball states by switching sides during a debate (which, maybe, the Wright Brothers did) you can reach a more balanced decision. Megan argues that this can be true for business decisions, but not for relational decisions. I tend to believe Megan, because women have entirely different aspects about these kinds of decisions from men. But, quoting frame 4, she is willing to give it a try. Then, Cueball denies his own case and thus disproving his own statement by locking the possibility. Which is superior in his man-being, but bad for the whole relationship.


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Discussion

The issue date is definitely not correct, because the file doesn't have a create-date. Anyone? --Rikthoff (talk) 06:30, 3 August 2012‎ (UTC)

Fixed. Date from Archive page is May 24, 2006. --B.P. 16:07, 8 August 2012‎ (UTC)

This reminds me of Doctor Who: "The key to a fair compromise is not knowing which side you're on." In this case, however, the humans and zygons actually have their memories erased. 108.162.219.202 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I guess the title text is more a joke on his previously often used sentence "It's true, do this all the time" or similar but now switched sides 108.162.254.75 18:50, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

"Often, after an hour or so of heated argument, we would discover that we were as far from agreement as when we started, but that each had changed to the other’s original position." Orville Wright (1912). Although it was not a deliberate change of position as depicted in the comic, the outcome reaches the same point. --Igwarrender (talk) 16:03, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

This really would work in interpersonal relationships, especially for the large proportion of people who lack the qualities necessary to be considering the other person's sincerely held belief as a matter of course. -Kazvorpal (talk) 21:30, 19 September 2019 (UTC) https://www.rightattitudes.com/2012/02/15/argue-like-the-wright-brothers and https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi927.htm come up on web search 162.158.62.13 16:24, 6 April 2021 (UTC)