Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations
by blowski on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @08:06AM
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Well it's self-reported in the US and EU as well. Unless you can establish reasonable grounds to believe the statistics are significantly wrong, refusing to believe them just sounds nihilistic.
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Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations
by Chris2048 on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @08:13AM
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nihilistic? As in "rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless"?
In any case, what's to believe? We're comparing stats here, so we have to consider that maybe this isn't a legitimate exercise in the first place. Like comparing UK sexual-assault statistic in order to derive a ranking. Without a basis for error, our conclusions may be poor.