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Yeah but the maps I'm showing don't follow general population density so the point being made by this comic doesn't apply in this instance.

arcticfox 10y ago
Unless I'm reading something on your graph incorrectly it's almost perfectly correlated with Martha Stewart Living subscribers. Looks like it applies almost exactly to me.
- folksinger 10y ago
  Well I already did the work I'm willing to do on my end. Further research would obviously have to take in to consideration deviations from general population density, but just looking at the map, there's a lot of voter intimidation being reported in the south that clearly has nothing to do with population density. Also, there's no correlation with voter intimidation and population density for cities in the midwest. So I guess it's just my word and my graph against your word and, well, nothing else. So you better get to work!
  - idanoeman 10y ago
    I'm not sure why you're pretending that it should be someone else's job to prove the point you're trying to make. You threw up a graph which looks identical to a population-density graph and are pretending you gave us evidence of your assertion.
    - folksinger 10y ago
      No, I'm saying that he has to provide a better refutation of my point. I do not agree that the graphs look identical. What point am I trying to make, BTW?
    - folksinger 10y ago
      BTW, I feel fully justified for calling out all of this lazy-ass thinking... posting links to comics as rebuttals... WTF is this, 4chan? Ya'll need to embrace empiricism. Ya'll call yourselves engineers? It "seems like" and it "looks like"? That's the evidence you provide? I don't give a shit if you prove me wrong. I hope you do. I just want to see the evidence. I care about the truth, not some bullshit.
  - arcticfox 10y ago
    Except your graph doesn't seem to support your point...IMO it's your word vs. your graph.
    - folksinger 10y ago
      Prove it.

arcticfox 10y ago

Unless I'm reading something on your graph incorrectly it's almost perfectly correlated with Martha Stewart Living subscribers. Looks like it applies almost exactly to me.

folksinger 10y ago
Well I already did the work I'm willing to do on my end. Further research would obviously have to take in to consideration deviations from general population density, but just looking at the map, there's a lot of voter intimidation being reported in the south that clearly has nothing to do with population density. Also, there's no correlation with voter intimidation and population density for cities in the midwest. So I guess it's just my word and my graph against your word and, well, nothing else. So you better get to work!
- idanoeman 10y ago
  I'm not sure why you're pretending that it should be someone else's job to prove the point you're trying to make. You threw up a graph which looks identical to a population-density graph and are pretending you gave us evidence of your assertion.
  - folksinger 10y ago
    No, I'm saying that he has to provide a better refutation of my point. I do not agree that the graphs look identical. What point am I trying to make, BTW?
  - folksinger 10y ago
    BTW, I feel fully justified for calling out all of this lazy-ass thinking... posting links to comics as rebuttals... WTF is this, 4chan? Ya'll need to embrace empiricism. Ya'll call yourselves engineers? It "seems like" and it "looks like"? That's the evidence you provide? I don't give a shit if you prove me wrong. I hope you do. I just want to see the evidence. I care about the truth, not some bullshit.
- arcticfox 10y ago
  Except your graph doesn't seem to support your point...IMO it's your word vs. your graph.
  - folksinger 10y ago
    Prove it.