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It's a lot of fun to form beliefs in the absence of data.
by SamReidHughes 8y ago
It's a lot of fun to form beliefs in the absence of data.
- ljf 8y agoInteresting you replied to this and not the parent?
- always_good 8y agoSeems appropriate because it applies up the whole comment chain. And if you're going to try and draw conclusions, then come out and say it instead of noncommittally leaving it up to our imagination.
- spraak 8y agoIt's a lot of fun to assume. /s How do you know I haven't formed this view based on data? You're assuming I don't have any data.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoBecause if you had data you'd be like, "here's the data." If your guess is right, we'd see differences in the effects of Jim Crow depending on what part of the country people lived in. Well, do we? I don't know.
- spraak 8y ago> we'd see differences in the effects of Jim Crow depending on what part of the country people lived in That's one, very obtuse hypothesis.