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Re:Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and ... by drfxyjhdyfrhgc on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:09AM (#28817479)
Innuendo? It's public knowledge that the author has competing interests. A Bayesian approach to the situation demands consideration of the possibility that the author is corrupt.
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Re:Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and ... by mjburgess on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:17AM (#28817529)
Bayesianism can't decide relevance (relevance isnt a statistical concept).

Indeed, "fallacies" are just discrete constraints on a problem like this.

Ie., that the author's relationship to facebook makes no difference to the truth of their claims shows that we need evidence relevant to their truth first.

In otherwords, you're effectively conditioning on the claims being false when you include this relationship.

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Re:Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and ... by nosianu on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:18AM (#28817536)
And his point was to actually provide arguments in support of such a "consideration" is how you argue.
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