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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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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…
It not being in the car is the most improbable thing tho…
muzzle@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Sherlock is always right only because he’s the protagonist. That’s what always annoyed me.
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 14 hours ago
they just write down the cases he actually solves
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Also, Arthur Conan Doyle was a greedy cunt that believed that copyright should be permanent