Re:Why Punish?
by SiempreViernes on Sunday July 31, 2022 @02:32PM
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Can you please explain your understanding of the word correlation? I'm very curios to hear how your reasoning for how statements about these can be proven by a single data point.
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A single data point can be sufficient to contradict a thesis.
A correlation is an observation that seemingly unrelated events occur in proximity to each other, temporally or otherwise.
Re:Why Punish?
by SiempreViernes on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:05PM
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Some theses can be disproved by a single data point, not all, and I asked about a specific type of thesis.
I repeat: can you show how a single data point can contradict a statement about the absence of correlation originally claimed?
What? I feel like one of us has forgotten how we got here.
>The idea of punishment as a deterrent is hopefully dead and buried at this point.
That's an absence of correlation claim?
Re:Why Punish?
by SiempreViernes on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:35AM
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Yes: if punishment was an effective deterrent, then the natural expectation is that there is strong correlation relationship between the level of punishment used and the deterrence effect.
Saying punishment doesn't provide deterrence only claims that punishment is not correlated with deterrence.
Maybe the examples shown gave the impression that an anti-correlation was claimed, but that is purely an invention of the reader.