@freemo
Well that's using the scientific method, right? Predicting the future based on past events?
(Referring to the sun)
@SecondJon
@freemo
Fair enough. I'd venture to say that a lot of what seems obvious is often mistaken. Or no one would ever be surprised by what statistical analysis really does show. As you said, you can't expect people to believe what is provable, nevermind what isn't. I bet whatever they believe in contrast is simply obvious to them.
I think if global police corruption is true, and we have no data so we need to just rely on me assertion, then it means that all politicians and members of the media are just as bad, just as complicit, or that would have brought this to light as well, as they may be the only ones able to. Give me a few minutes, maybe we can get all mastodon admins and users lumped in as well.. (my subtle humor, not going to link you on with police corruption. Yet.)
Off to play in magical fairly land. Have a great day.
@realcaseyrollins @freemo
I'm not at this point arguing that you're wrong about corruption. Just about the basis for the claim. Maybe I'm misreading. I tend to believe that my personal experience and those of others I know is a very small sample size that I interpret largely through confirmation bias and the availability heuristic, so try to not make global truth claims based on it.
@realcaseyrollins
I'm not a statistician, but the argument seems odd to me. I'm normally quite impressed by freemo's statical perspective.
I can't think there's a lot of situations where would pass as a solid truth claim: I have personal experience and I heard others who agree with me, therefore the only only way I can be wrong is if there's a magical fairy land. Disagreement with my assertion is believing in magical fairly lands. *mic drop*
P.S. in the future I'll be linking to #Feddit on the #Fediverse how #Gabbers link to #Gab Trends lol
@realcaseyrollins I have no expectation of people believing things that are provable, let alone things that are not.
Most of the time I have no expectation people will even believe the earth is round at this point. so pretty sure I can give you a pass on this one too :)
Scott Adams live now: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1268180767512788992
and he tells story how he was not promoted because he was white and his employer needed diversity.
Growing calls to “defund the police,” explained https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21276824/defund-police-divest-explainer
@freemo I guess that's true.
But I can be forgiven for not believing something you can't prove, right? Like it's reasonable to ask for proof before believing something.
@freemo you can't prove it's true either, apparently :)
@freemo That's a fine example, but again it doesn't make it true that all precincts are corrupt. I won't believe that all precincts are corrupt until you can prove it.
I've moved over to @realcaseyrollins for my private account
This is literally just here to archive my old posts now