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Comparing current day consumption to a single year in the past reeks of bias.

• taysic 9y ago
  What kind of bias? I copy pasted a cluster of lines from that page, but the sources themselves are well documented, mainly from the gov itself. Anyway here's another source that shows that meat consumption has dramatically increased since the 1920s, though that wasn't my central point: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/visualizing-a-nation-of-meat-eaters http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/vis...
  • tertius 9y ago
    Example: I want to show that there is a lot more murder today than before because of guns. I pick one year (a far edge of the bell curve type of year) to compare to today where there was the least amount of murders and compare it to day. Without showing an average or showing even a distribution bias should be expected. There is very little reason for picking a single year to these types of arguments and it is too often done.
    • EGreg 9y ago
      Didn't conservatives do this with global warming? Except they took the hottest year 1998 as a starting point to say warming isn't happening https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/three-ways-climate-deniers-cherry-pick-facts-about-climate-change https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/three-ways-climat...