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>You argue against cherry-picking, and then you think you can prove something with one single example? Well... he can! He can prove, with one example, that the
by mrex 4y ago
>You argue against cherry-picking, and then you think you can prove something with one single example?
Well... he can! He can prove, with one example, that the other person's thesis doesn't fit the facts.
And he did that.
So, yeah.
- SiempreViernes 4y agoCan you please explain your understanding of the word correlation? I'm very curios to hear how your reasoning for how statements about these can be proven by a single data point.
- mrex 4y agoA single data point can be sufficient to contradict a thesis. A correlation is an observation that seemingly unrelated events occur in proximity to each other, temporally or otherwise.
- SiempreViernes 4y agoSome theses can be disproved by a single data point, not all, and I asked about a specific type of thesis. I repeat: can you show how a single data point can contradict a statement about the absence of correlation originally claimed?
- mrex 4y agoWhat? I feel like one of us has forgotten how we got here. >The idea of punishment as a deterrent is hopefully dead and buried at this point. That's an absence of correlation claim?
- SiempreViernes 4y agoYes: if punishment was an effective deterrent, then the natural expectation is that there is strong correlation relationship between the level of punishment used and the deterrence effect. Saying punishment doesn't provide deterrence only claims that punishment is not correlated with deterrence. Maybe the examples shown gave the impression that an anti-correlation was claimed, but that is purely an invention of the reader.