Talk:Candor

Please provide course feedback here. Thanks!--Lbeaumont (discuss • contribs) 21:12, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

This phrase: "While a peer-level exchange of information is essential to healthy dialogue, people who have achieved especially high stature particularly deserve our respect." feels kind of strange, personally it makes me think of what specifically means "high stature", i understand after pondering that everyone has a different scale of values and so this "stature" will vary from person to person, maybe there is a better way to word it.

For example: For many people, a tyrant will have "high stature", while others will have them in the lowest esteem.

I just created my account and it's the first course i am going through on this site, so apologies if i'm doing it wrong somehow. Negatopoji (discuss • contribs) 03:46, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

@Negatopoji: I second this. People of "high stature" should not be exempt from scrutiny nor their reputation taken on faith. AP295 (discuss • contribs) 23:30, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

It's interesting, the most salient comments one sees on wikipedia's talk pages and wikiversity's discussion pages are usually made by unregistered users or people who only make a "one-off" account because they notice something incongruous. It's a shame they don't stick around longer. The resource also states "The information can be considered on its own merits without anyone being unduly influenced by the stature, status, or reputation of the speaker or intimidated by any threat of harm or repercussions." which seems at odds with "While a peer-level exchange of information is essential to healthy dialogue, people who have achieved especially high stature particularly deserve our respect", yet not entirely. The qualifier "unduly" is what makes them jibe. Why should someone necessarily be "influenced" by these things at all? One certainly can give some credit to someone who's an authority on any given subject if they wish to do so, but good work and actions need not be taken on faith. Trust is something earned, not demanded. AP295 (discuss • contribs) 05:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)