Hmm, yeah. I actually think you changed my mind on the recommendations. My new position is something like: 1. There should not be a higher burden on anti-recommendations than pro-recommendations. 2. Both pro- and anti-recommendations should come with caveats and conditionals whenever they make a difference to the target audience. 3. I’m now more convinced that the anti-recommendation of OP was appropriate. 4. I’d probably still phrase it differently than they did but my overall belief went from “this was unjustified” to “they should have used different wording” which is a substantial change in position. 5. In general, the context in which you make a recommendation still matters. For example, if you make a public comment saying “I’d probably not recommend working for X” the severity feels different than “I collected a lot of evidence and wrote this entire post and now recommend against working for X”. But I guess that just changes the effect size and not really the content of the recommendation.
Hmm, yeah. I actually think you changed my mind on the recommendations. My new position is something like:
1. There should not be a higher burden on anti-recommendations than pro-recommendations.
2. Both pro- and anti-recommendations should come with caveats and conditionals whenever they make a difference to the target audience.
3. I’m now more convinced that the anti-recommendation of OP was appropriate.
4. I’d probably still phrase it differently than they did but my overall belief went from “this was unjustified” to “they should have used different wording” which is a substantial change in position.
5. In general, the context in which you make a recommendation still matters. For example, if you make a public comment saying “I’d probably not recommend working for X” the severity feels different than “I collected a lot of evidence and wrote this entire post and now recommend against working for X”. But I guess that just changes the effect size and not really the content of the recommendation.
:) I’m glad we got to agreement!
(Or at least significantly closer, I’m sure there are still some minor differences.)