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xkcd #3210: Eliminating the Impossible
Title text:
‘If you’ve eliminated a few possibilities and you can’t think of any others, your weird theory is proven right’ isn’t quite as rhetorically compelling.
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Source: xkcd.com/3210/
Doyle observed that Bell seemed to be able to diagnose patients from little information, noticing minute details: “Dr Bell would sit in his receiving room, with a face like a Red Indian, and diagnose people as they came in, before they even opened their mouths. […] He would tell them their symptoms and even give them details of their past life, and hardly ever would he make a mistake.” This ability led Doyle to model his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes on Bell.
Thanks! I had assumed it was all fantastic fictional fluff. Really interesting to learn there’s a grain of truth behind it
Very tiny grain - I feel like Doyle was a bit of a dreamer that was easily misled by confident adults and even children
I tried reading sherlock holmes and it annoyed me how sure he was of every observation. Like guessing someone’s height to the millimeter from distances between steps.
Easiest way to commit a crime and never gee caught by him would be wearing clown shoes while you do it.
I wonder if they realize that not everybody has the exact same proportion of leg to torso…
That’s why Batman is the best he uses AI The Batcomputer which totally isn’t cooled by an aquifer feeding Gotham.
It not being in the car is the most improbable thing tho…
you people are bad at finding things
muzzle@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Sherlock is always right only because he’s the protagonist. That’s what always annoyed me.
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
they just write down the cases he actually solves
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Also, Arthur Conan Doyle was a greedy cunt that believed that copyright should be permanent
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And that selfish son of a bitch even died before I could pirate his work.