3 ms·
The point is you can always pick a "part" of some place small enough to make any statement of that sort true. Pick a couple of square meter where someone died:
by V1ndaar 3y ago
The point is you can always pick a "part" of some place small enough to make any statement of that sort true. Pick a couple of square meter where someone died: "everyone died in parts of X". Pick the area around a couple of billionaire neighbors in SF: everyone is a billionaire in parts of SF. Etc.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoTaken a step further, it's not science when the conclusion is based on cherry picked data; and it's not journalism when you ignore the fact the "science" isn't actually science.
- magicalhippo 3y agoThis is why mathematicians are so meticulous with their "if and only if", "everywhere except a countable number of points", infinimum/supremum[1] and so on, and of course equations to really nail things down. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infimum_and_supremum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infimum_and_supremum