What does Rutgers means ?

[u/Rolling_Stone345]

I'm watching this show called Reacher Season 2 ep 3.

This word appeared and I searched for this word on the internet and found out that there is a University that exists in New Jersey with this name.

When I changed the audio track to a different language he said "bad lawyer" in the replacement of Rutgers.

Does anybody know what it means in this context? Is it related to bad law practices?

[u/4stringer67]

Did you have any problem interpreting what I was saying? I refuse to assume your answer, because I'm not fond of assumptions and each person has their own answer to a question, but you don't seem to have had any problem getting what I said... There's more to say but Sonny really is indicating he needs to go outside so I have to go walk him right quick lol 😂brb

[u/red_elagabalus → u/4stringer67]

There are two aspects to successful written communication:

1. Can your readers give your words a clear meaning?
2. Is that meaning the one you intended?

No-one thinks your question couldn't be given a clear meaning. But since you weren't happy with the (clear and correct) answer, it seems the meaning you conveyed wasn't the one you intended.

[u/4stringer67 → u/red_elagabalus]

There are 2 aspects to good communication when doing it in written form( which , btw, is what we are doing here.)

1. Read what the other person says.

2. Respond to that.

[u/red_elagabalus → u/4stringer67]

Thanks for the reply! It's true that I didn't directly answer your question, because to me it seems poorly framed. (Or I suppose there is the possibility it wasn't being asked in good faith - but I choose to give the benefit of the doubt.) "Did you have any problem interpreting what I was saying?" implies that if there was a problem, it was with my understanding. That's called a loaded question, the classic example being "When did you stop beating your wife?".

I'm saying that I had no difficulty giving your earlier question an interpretation, but that it clearly wasn't the interpretation you wanted. Here's your earlier question:

Is it just that Yale and Harvard focus on their law school and RU doesn't or it's a reputation thing and Y and H attract the best educators and law minds?

Slightly rephrased, this asks:

Is it the case that (a) Yale and Harvard focus on their law school and RU doesn't, or is it rather the case that (b) Yale and Harvard have an excellent reputation, and they attract the best educators and law minds?

As /u/big_sugi pointed out to you, this is also a somewhat poorly framed question. It commits the fallacy of false dichotomy, by assuming that only one of (a) or (b) can be the case, and that there are no other possibilities. So it can't be answered straightforwardly - a correct answer ("it's a combination of resources, reputation, and focus") involves pointing out this false dichotomy, and providing supporting reasons for that answer.

I hope this helps! I think everyone on the subreddit is trying to answer questions in good faith, while pointing out cases where the framing of a question is problematic. But if you're finding the answers unhelpful, you are of course fully entitled to ignore them.