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Re:The Big Alien Theory by user-the-name on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:50AM (#27378329)
But if you do that, it becomes a truism, and I do not think it actually gives you any useful information any longer.
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Re:The Big Alien Theory by fergussimpson on Thursday June 03, 2021 @06:07PM (#27388035)
Just so we're clear, you no longer consider this to be a fallacy if by 'high' we use the median as a reference point?

"I am more likely to have been born in a high population country than a low population country"

And you don't think that's useful?

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