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This is begging the question, which priors are strong enough to merit “certainty” in the face of opposing evidence?
by sooheon 7y ago
This is begging the question, which priors are strong enough to merit “certainty” in the face of opposing evidence?
- tomrod 7y agoFair critique, as the GP didn't say certainty but my response was pre-supposed. I would say that we don't have a well-founded, commonly known model linking air pollution and depression. However their confounding experience through poverty is accepted and easily understood.
- sooheon 7y agoMy bad, I read “confidence” and put “certainty” in their mouth. I can agree other already understood factors exist, and may confound the problem. But confounding != negation. And the health effects of air pollution are well understood and bad enough that denying the link from pollution -> depression is equivalent to denying link from bad health -> depression.
- tomrod 7y agoWe agree on this point.
- ailideex 7y agoThere is opposing evidence?
- sooheon 7y agoMultiple links to recent studies in the article, and a large body of work on the effects of pollution on health in general.