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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by tptacek on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:39PM (#26624447)
There is no strongly-held opinion anywhere in the world that you can't play that rhetorical trick on, which may be why there are whole papers that have been written about why it's almost never persuasive to deploy gotcha statistics that way.
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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by leetcrew on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:37PM (#26625390)
is this a rebuttal or an agreement? I think the point of the example was that most people can't rigorously defend their strongly held opinions. they just throw gotchas at each other.
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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by tptacek on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:43PM (#26625469)
You know, I think you're right. Sorry about that! Just read my comment as an especially annoying yes-and.
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