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I asked you to google a quote which take a minute to find at most. In this topic you consistently require folks to spend much more time to even come close to in
by jahaja 6y ago
I asked you to google a quote which take a minute to find at most. In this topic you consistently require folks to spend much more time to even come close to interpreting your links.
Axe to grind? Yes. I do notice patterns that I don't really fancy, reactionary ones in particular. Aristocrats defending monarchy get little sympathy from me.
- bhupy 6y agoThe vast majority of my links are literally pictures of charts and 280 character tweets. In general, when you make a claim, the burden is on you to prove it, and you should hence provide links to your citations. Imploring others to Google around to corroborate your own arguments (especially when — in your case — the arguments are incoherent) imposes that burden on the recipient. It’s far higher a burden than reading links that have already been supplied, especially when those links are tweets and charts. On only one occasion in this discussion, my links included research papers — but that was in response to claims about Piketty, a researcher. I generally expect people that bring him up to be able to parse research papers — a skill that you typically learn as an undergraduate.
- jahaja 6y agoBoth articles can be found within seconds by selecting the text, right-clicking and clicking "Search Google". The tweets you are linking are summarizing cherry-picked data that itself would require much more effort to figure out. Both quotes I pasted show significant problems with those "refutations". The first is simply using the wrong data and the latter seem to just be complaining that there's too little data to make an accurate estimate (and the obvious solution is to lobby for states to provide this, which status-quo apologists seem very unwilling to do).