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Oct. 12th, 2019 01:33 pm
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Date: 2019-10-12 01:20 am (UTC)
siderea: (Default)
From: [personal profile] siderea
You seem to feel very strongly about the findings of this study being wrong. Why is that?

Date: 2019-10-12 01:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] greghousesgf
I'm not. I'm just saying my friends and I had entirely different experiences. I also want to know where this happened.

Date: 2019-10-12 01:34 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] siderea
You keep insisting "my friends and my experience contradicts these findings." Obviously you could have instead concluded that your and your friends' experiences were anecdote, in the face of the data generated by a rigorous study, and that you and your friends were lucky, not representative, but you didn't. Instead you keep proffering your and your friends personal experience as evidence of some significance. Which is a curious choice. I'm asking why you made it.

Date: 2019-10-12 01:38 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] greghousesgf
Your use of the word "anecdote" seems to imply that you think somebody's not being honest.

Date: 2019-10-12 02:34 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] siderea

Sure it does. Meanwhile, back at the discussion we were having, you were going to explain why you feel so strongly about this, that you are attempting so insistently to invalidate the findings.

And then maybe you could explain why you keep saying that curious thing about "just wanting to know where"?

Given that it says where the study was conducted at the very start of the article, which I'm sure you also read before commenting on.

And, while we're at it, perhaps we could discuss one of the things I found most interesting about the article, how the study protocol they used would surface patterns of discrimination that wouldn't be possible for individual riders to have known about, one way or the other. I find that just fascinating. Don't you?

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