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> but there’s no way that one in five working adults has a health condition so bad that they cannot work. I would go further, I would also say that there are n
by SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
> but there’s no way that one in five working adults has a health condition so bad that they cannot work.
I would go further, I would also say that there are no "working adults" who also "cannot work".
You don't see ill people walking around? Yes, that's how it works, it doesn't prove anything. We're not seeing what we don't see, and can't draw "common sense" inferences from that missing data. You need actual studies.
- gruez 1y ago>I would go further, I would also say that there are no "working adults" who also "cannot work". He probably meant "working age adults".
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y agoSure, but the point remains - they say that know it's wrong because they see a representative sample of working age adults? No, we actually don't: There is strong selection bias by definition of the difference between "of working age" and actually "working". The ones unable to work are less publicly visible.