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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • So clarify what I can do. I vote, so that’s out of the way.

    Donate? With what money?

    Help/run campaigns? With what time and/or money?

    Be informed? I generally am and a fat lot of good it did.

    Inform others? Not an influencer, so no reach. The few crazies I am adjacent to I either can’t discuss things with because it’d be unprofessional and I don’t want to lose my job or they drank deep of the Kool aid. And the non crazies are usually on my side even when I do have info they don’t already know.

    Take people to the polls? Everyone for whom I could offer such a service early voted.

    So what power am I overlooking? I participate to the best of my ability and within my limited resources so what am I missing?









  • Congrats you’ve fallen into a common stats trap!

    You can’t know what the average is for the hypothetical society to which you are comparing despite that being the optimal way to compare. If you were to actually attempt this comparison, you would take two comparable societies that differ only in religious adherence, controlling for non religious cultural things (hint: you can’t separate those easily if at all). And even if you did manage that, you’ve only shown correlation, not causation. Proving the latter is much harder.

    If it sounds like I’m agreeing with you, I’m not! I’m saying you cannot know one way or another. But your inane, tautological statement of “the average domestic abuse rates for society are about average” drove me to inform others of how terrible this argument is. You’re clearly a lost cause.

    If you want to prove your point, don’t try stats, you’re bad at it. Go for a logical argument, though I suspect you’re bad at that too.