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If this is real, I wonder how much of the response was a result of sarcastic humor.

by _8j50 3y ago

than3 3y ago
If this was real, I wonder how much of the respondents had an IQ less than average. Neurotoxic and other long-lasting chemical effects degrade intelligence. Hardly worth considering this if the only people to vote on it lacked the intelligence to critically evaluate it in the first place. Heck even ingesting above 0.5 of flouride causes degradation and potentially brain damage in babies, cumulatively you might get 6 or above in a day as its put in everything. Science pretty clearly shows it doesn't impact tooth decay when ingested, its purely topical. If you're being drugged knowingly or not, in a way that would impact your ability to evaluate that's a pretty big red flag for any study. Interesting that flouridation is required in any city center above 200k people, with the primary reason being tooth decay. Side effects include lethargy and liver damage. I wonder what factor, if any, this might play in general obesity since liver damage can impact fat metabolism, normal carbon filters such as Brita don't filter this out, only bone filters do.
scantis 3y ago
In my experience about a quarter of the younger generation give the wrong answer to long text based questions. The question stated was: "Would you favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity?" Very bad question, especially if your possible answers are [Yes] and [No]. What is a household? Just the entrance?
- remarkEon 3y ago
  It's a terrible question, yes. Too long, lack of definitions as you said. Still ... my experience with this generation is that they are hyper focused on "safety issues" and don't really have an understanding (yet) for how the tools built for those things can be perverted into a dreadful weapon.
remarkEon 3y ago
Survey design is really interesting to me. Did they add a control question? Something like "Justin Bieber is a giant squid" and all of the responses for anyone who answers "yes" get dropped.
- wkearney99 3y ago
  Given Cato's right-wing tendencies it'd be more likely they deliberately crafted the survey to deliver this sort of fear-mongering idiocy. It feeds right into the interests of their base.

If this is real, I wonder how much of the response was a result of sarcastic humor.

by _8j50 3y ago

If this is real, I wonder how much of the response was a result of sarcastic humor.

If this was real, I wonder how much of the respondents had an IQ less than average. Neurotoxic and other long-lasting chemical effects degrade intelligence. Hardly worth considering this if the only people to vote on it lacked the intelligence to critically evaluate it in the first place. Heck even ingesting above 0.5 of flouride causes degradation and potentially brain damage in babies, cumulatively you might get 6 or above in a day as its put in everything. Science pretty clearly shows it doesn't impact tooth decay when ingested, its purely topical. If you're being drugged knowingly or not, in a way that would impact your ability to evaluate that's a pretty big red flag for any study. Interesting that flouridation is required in any city center above 200k people, with the primary reason being tooth decay. Side effects include lethargy and liver damage. I wonder what factor, if any, this might play in general obesity since liver damage can impact fat metabolism, normal carbon filters such as Brita don't filter this out, only bone filters do.

scantis 3y ago

In my experience about a quarter of the younger generation give the wrong answer to long text based questions. The question stated was: "Would you favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity?" Very bad question, especially if your possible answers are [Yes] and [No]. What is a household? Just the entrance?

remarkEon 3y ago
It's a terrible question, yes. Too long, lack of definitions as you said. Still ... my experience with this generation is that they are hyper focused on "safety issues" and don't really have an understanding (yet) for how the tools built for those things can be perverted into a dreadful weapon.

remarkEon 3y ago

Survey design is really interesting to me. Did they add a control question? Something like "Justin Bieber is a giant squid" and all of the responses for anyone who answers "yes" get dropped.

wkearney99 3y ago
Given Cato's right-wing tendencies it'd be more likely they deliberately crafted the survey to deliver this sort of fear-mongering idiocy. It feeds right into the interests of their base.