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A peer-reviewed scientific survey would reign supreme, but in the absence of one, we're left with a pretty-good survey that says one thing, and someone's gut fe
by raldi 10y ago
A peer-reviewed scientific survey would reign supreme, but in the absence of one, we're left with a pretty-good survey that says one thing, and someone's gut feeling the says another.
- mseebach 10y agoHow do you know it's pretty good? It doesn't even appear to be sourced (looking at the Google Cache, I suppose a footnote could have been lost in formatting)? A non-peer-reviewed survey is just a gut-feeling with a budget, doubly so when we're reading about in a newspaper with an explicitly stated agenda on the subject.
- pessimizer 10y agoBut to put it in perspective, it was posted in response to a random person saying a random thing on the internet, citing nothing but what they thought that they might do if they were homeless.