Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contractor's vote to unionize

Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by mokus on Saturday September 21, 2019 @02:16PM (#21036951)

This is a non-sequitur. The (apocryphal, IMO) “centrist” that’s saying everything is “between the two extremes” is not the same thing as someone saying “no, there’s actually more than 2 positions”.

Your statistical example actually takes things the wrong direction. The person you are responding to is positing a distribution with more than two modes, not fewer, and by suggesting there are two your example actually is closer to the “centrist” straw man.

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Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by anigbrowl on Saturday September 21, 2019 @04:35PM (#21037778)

Sure...if you ignore that I also mentioned a normal distribution, which includes a variety of opinions with a rough clustering around the center. Why did you just ignore that?

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Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by mokus on Saturday September 21, 2019 @10:50PM (#21039332)

I didn’t ignore it, I called it a straw man. That’s the entire point of my comment.

The argument you are calling “centrist” is not claiming there is a “truth somewhere in the middle”. It’s claiming there are plausible positions (concentrations of probability in your metaphor) in more than just two locations.

I also considered adding that the assumption of a one-dimensional parameter space is also overly reductionist and not representative of the majority of positions people take when they feel like the mainstream choices are both wrong.

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