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The person you keep replying to has not cherry-picked anything. They have merely selected the most conveniently available data source to quote. https://www.acc
by Talanes 5y ago
The person you keep replying to has not cherry-picked anything. They have merely selected the most conveniently available data source to quote.
https://www.accessmagazine.org/spring-2007/horse-power-horsepower/ https://www.accessmagazine.org/spring-2007/horse-power-horse...
You can criticize their choice of sources, you can dig deeper and provide more comprehensive data, but going post after post admonishing them for cherry-picking data that is just gauche. They didn't pick the years!
- lmm 5y agoThey picked the sources, and their sources use apparently arbitrary dates that are particularly unrepresentative. Maybe that's just an unfortunate coincidence, but even if so, the net effect is the same as cherry-picking.
- Dylan16807 5y agoIt's the first result and there aren't very many results. That's not cherry-picking on my end.
- Talanes 5y agoWell, no it's not. Because if they were cherry-picking, then your needling them repeatedly over the data could actually produce a reaction that gets you more accurate data. But since they are just presenting you with the most commonly available data, nothing you say will make them produce different results.