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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by jacquesm on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:52PM (#20034273)
So, halving it would make people 3% more happy. I say halve it 30 times in a row then. These silly stats make no sense at all.
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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by dTal on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @06:21PM (#20034996)
Percentages don't work that way. Don't blame the stats for your own misunderstanding.
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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by jacquesm on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @06:40PM (#20035117)
Yes, that was sort of the point.
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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by dTal on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @07:01PM (#20035255)
Sorry.
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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by Matticus_Rex on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @05:08PM (#20034426)
That doesn't follow.
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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by jacquesm on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @07:33PM (#20035487)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by Matticus_Rex on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @01:44PM (#20097398)
Not really, though -- it was empirical, and the fact that an estimate of the first halving does X doesn't imply that further halving will have the same effect, so a reductio doesn't work here.
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