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Re:Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017) by imgabe on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:49AM (#19025870)
If being rich is simply a requirement to participate in the activity, but most people rich people don't engage in it then it really doesn't tell you anything about "rich people" as a group. If 99% of rich people don't participate in endurance sports, then it is not a characteristic of rich people in any meaningful sense.

You might as well ask "Why do rich people love helicopter skiing?" I'm sure everyone that does that is pretty rich, but probably most rich people don't do it. I'm sure there's a ton of not-rich people who would also enjoy it, but they simply can't afford to do it.

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Re:Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017) by coldtea on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @10:17AM (#19026948)
>If 99% of rich people don't participate in endurance sports, then it is not a characteristic of rich people in any meaningful sense.

That doesn't follow. If 1% of rich people do X, and only 0.0001% of non-rich do it, then X is very much a trait of rich people. It's not of most/all rich people, but it is predominantly of rich people.

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Re:Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017) by imgabe on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @10:42AM (#19027185)
Personally, I wouldn't consider anything that only applies to a tiny percentage of a group to be a trait of that group. You could say that being rich is a trait of people who participate in endurance sports, but not vice versa.
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