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Apply the Socratic method. Instead of telling people that they're wrong for {reasons}, ask them to provide hard data to justify their proposals with hard data and references to peer-reviewed articles. Often they have no basis and are just parroting something they read somewhere.

But at the same time be humble and remain open to trying different approaches. Sometimes things that look stupid end up working well. IT is so complex that our intuitions can't be trusted.



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