Quote Originally Posted by Thondalar View Post
Is it normal for scientists to make such broad statements based only on one source of data?
Bro, if you're going to complain about my using life expectancy as a measure of life we should probably just stop now. But I am not easily discouraged, so...
You base liberty on voting and wage demographics? What about the fact we incarcerate a higher percentage of our population than any other country in the world, and a higher rate than we ever have in our history?
The more criminals we have incarcerated, the less can menace law-abiding citizens. Duhhh. We still don't catch 100% of criminals, but we're closer than we were pre-video, pre-DNA, pre-post-racial.
Our per capita GDP is the highest in our history, but so is the number of our citizens on welfare. Taking only GDP numbers into account ignores the fact that our wealth disparity is the highest in our nation's history...you're taking an average as scientific evidence of an absolute? What the hell sort of scientist does that?
I don't know what you mean by evidence of an "absolute". I assume you mean that all data I cite is wrong, to which I can easily link dozens of posts where I cite accurate data... but if I cited it it must be wrong... drat! You win this round.