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Re:Billions of dollars of unsold diamonds are piling up arou... by scbrg on Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:20PM (#23520516)
> Unless someone's seen a study on this, neither of you is more right than the other.

Well, if one person makes a blanket statement about all individuals in a group, and the other disproves that with a single individual to which the statement does not apply, one of them clearly is more right than the other.

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Re:Billions of dollars of unsold diamonds are piling up arou... by the_omegist on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:15AM (#23527542)
Ok he should have said "many" or "most" : does it change the underlying face behind his statement ?

I don't have any statistics, but it seems obvious the group of women desiring diamonds is bigger (to say the least) than the group of women not interested by them.

Without generalization there can be no reasoning, because you can always find outliers that disprove any claim.

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Re:Billions of dollars of unsold diamonds are piling up arou... by andrepd on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @09:05AM (#23538674)
>I don't have any statistics, but it seems obvious that

So no, (1) you don't have any data, to even say "most" women do, and (2) that's not what the guy I replied to said, he said "all" women.

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