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>If you think not reporting error bars is what makes people "lose faith in media brands", you are so far away from reality I'm not sure what to tell you. "If y
by passivate 5y ago
>If you think not reporting error bars is what makes people "lose faith in media brands", you are so far away from reality I'm not sure what to tell you.
"If you think.." - Why not ask me what I think instead of assuming and putting up a strawman?
>when asked, actually consider Facebook -- a piece of software-- harmful. They are saying that. What does that mean?
I don't consider opinion polls as pathways to truths. They're interesting data points, but not some kind of absolute truth. Human opinions change, perspectives change, often multiple times when provided new/different data. Opinions can also be in conflict with each other. We're not automations or pinnacles of logical consistency. You can hand-wave it away as "nuance", but it isn't. Its fundamental. It's messy.
- tiahura 5y ago“Why not ask me what I think instead of assuming and putting up a strawman?” It’s not an assumption. You just said it.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoHe very clearly did not say that not putting up error bars was what makes people lose faith in the media. According to passivate's commentary, what makes people lose faith in the media is when they report a study that notes "our findings cannot generalize because we used a nonrandom sample" in the terms "most Canadians believe...". itsoktocry is just putting up a low-effort bad-faith nonrebuttal.