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        26 days ago

        … you did read the thing about epochal statistics right? I think we’ve been over this already, you can’t really be arguing statistical literalism about martin luther king.

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            26 days ago

            A third response is still valid, though. That concept is the cornerstone of everything from data science to regular science. Removing something as sensitive as a poll from it’s context is to remove all meaning from it, but again, he was indeed hugely popular. Even the gallup polls at the time support this. I’m really lost as to what you’re getting at.

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                26 days ago

                Again, yes? I’m not sure how embedding the image changes it’s meaning, but I’m still quite curious as to what your point is.

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                    26 days ago

                    So instead of elaborating… you’re just going to meme? I mean sure go ahead, it just feels kinda, idk, pointless. ba-dum tss.

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                  26 days ago

                  You know what it is, you just don’t have a response so you’re playing dumb.

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                    26 days ago

                    I feel like you might be casting your own conceptions as to the basis of my motivations, and they’re a little unfair - if you mean that their point is “martin luther king’s popularity fell between 1965 and 1966” then sure, that’s supported by the above gallup poll. But that’s trivially true, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the use of optics by social movements, and also has nothing to do with how hugely popular king was at the time (which is also supported by the same gallup poll).

                    I have no idea what their point is, though. They’ve been trying to, idk, entrap me into saying king wasn’t popular? Which patently wasn’t true, even according to their own sources. So… what? What’re they even trying to argue, because this feels very much like they’re just trying to ‘win’ based on a semantic argument I’ve never ascribed to, after entrenching themselves in a position that the other person never set out or has interest in discussing .