Worst use of "methodology", 2017

FBI profiler commenting on a series of murders: "They were all done with the same methodology."



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  1. If words are prone to misuse in English, maybe it is a problem of English and not the speaker.

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    1. The issue in this case I think is the desire to sound fancy: "methodology" sounds more "scientific" than does "method."

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  2. "Agile" has killed countless otherwise doable projects.

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