• Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I mean, I’m the only one here who tried to analyze the survey posted, while you all are just like “See? Numbers! Good numbers”

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      You gave suggestions for improvement then said as it stands it isn’t relevant at all, which I would say goes far too far. It’s useful, and accurate. I don’t know why you’re trying to play semantical games and try to snarkily avoid discussing Socialist theory on a Socialist comm.

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          You played semantical games with Imperialism and Socialism. Your claims about the data having “literally no validity” weren’t semantics, they were just wrong, the data itself is good even if we can get more data elsewhere.

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            The data is good even if data is missing. Really you can’t see anything wrong eight that? Man…

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              This should be improved with adding more countries, like Russia, then comparing with other important data, like freedom of expression, to be somehow relevant to any discussion

              These would expand the data and make it more useful. There’s no missing data, though, the data as it exists stands on its own, it’s a comparison of different countries and approval, which is backed up in other studies on CPC approval rates among others.

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                It’s also a comparison of how much people in those countries feel free of criticizing their government then.

                To be sure it isn’t we should include more countries, first of all, with different kinds of governments. That would be a good start at some kind of more objective discussion based on tangible things.

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                  It isn’t, though. You have a hypothesis, so you need to test that hypothesis, not assume your hypothesis existing invalidates the test results. This is statistics 101.

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                    No, I simply have critical thinking that makes me unable to trust some random numbers.