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Your takeaway was "I don't care about the poor" from a comment where I literally talk about how important it is to help people who didn't have the same opportun

Your takeaway was "I don't care about the poor" from a comment where I literally talk about how important it is to help people who didn't have the same opportunities I had. It's _the opposite_ of what I said. All I want is to control for age, or use some other technique to improve the data. Sorry if I laid out that point in a confusing way, maybe this is on me. But saying someone has no empathy is calling them a sociopath. If you're going to lean into personal attacks, don't you at least owe them the common courtesy of re-reading their comment in full to make sure you understand their point?

ajross 7y ago
> It's _the opposite_ of what I said. All I want is [...] Then I sincerely apologize. What you wrote sounded like excuse making for why the poor don't really have it so bad and why the inexorably increasing income inequality in our society isn't a problem. If it's not, and you're merely making a dry critique of the analysis... meh. It's still not really helping anyone now, is it? "We need better data" is what climate denialists like to say too.