Source?? You can’t just make unsubstantiated claims like that and think it’s okay to use chromosomally oppressive letters like X and Y without providing a source, bigot.
It is still "evidence", even if it isn't proof. It also doesn't tell you the direction, "are they fat because they watch tv, or do they watch tv because they are fat?"
Actually causal statistics has gone a long way but unfortunately most statisticians never learn those tricks. Judea Pearl is leading researcher on the topic.
Oh yeah. Powerful mathematical techniques are amazing. I'd assume these can tease out even small causation hidden in noise, like the magic of Fourier transforms for noisy signals with a periodic component.
[ - ] x0x7 1 point 3.7 yearsAug 13, 2021 15:04:30 ago (+1/-0)
Also them:
Masks help prevent the spread of covid.
Me: Got a source?
Them: CNN or some infographic
Play their game. Start demanding sources. They are the ones who want to infringe on freedoms. They better have some damn good data to do that (if morally that could ever be enough anyway). None of their policies work out because they don't know jack shit before they act. They don't have sources for their viewpoints either. Shift the burden of proof back onto them for the crazy shit they want to do. Blanket source denialism will infuriate them just as much as it does us.
They publish fake data to support global warming. Do you need them to start on covid too? Because they will. It doesn't matter how many studies they have, they can't tell us what to do.
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"Ok here's a collage of photographs showing-"
"Ok, here's an image with-"
"Stare into this metal tube for a sec and the source will hit you."
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1. Ask for source
2. Ask if peer reviewed.
3. If not peer reviewed you win. Name call. Down vote. Go ask someone else for source. If peer reviewed continue to step 4.
4. Go to google and search the source title + debunked.
5. Pull up debunked webpage and copy some text saying why it's debunked. Don't bother reading either the source or the debunked source.
6. Paste into forum. You win. Name call. Down vote. Go ask someone else for source.
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[ - ] YamaMaya 2 points 3.7 yearsAug 13, 2021 11:52:48 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] x0x7
[ - ] x0x7 1 point 3.7 yearsAug 13, 2021 15:04:30 ago (+1/-0)
Masks help prevent the spread of covid.
Me: Got a source?
Them: CNN or some infographic
Play their game. Start demanding sources. They are the ones who want to infringe on freedoms. They better have some damn good data to do that (if morally that could ever be enough anyway). None of their policies work out because they don't know jack shit before they act. They don't have sources for their viewpoints either. Shift the burden of proof back onto them for the crazy shit they want to do. Blanket source denialism will infuriate them just as much as it does us.
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[ - ] TheLastStraightMan 0 points 3.7 yearsAug 14, 2021 00:14:37 ago (+0/-0)