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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by bawolff on Thursday April 03, 2025 @03:38AM (#43566164)
Most people are friends with people like themselves?

The selection bias of extrapolating an entire country (not to mention one as large and diverse as usa) by using your friend group should be very obvious.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by leflambeur on Thursday April 03, 2025 @12:16PM (#43571902)
Yet I wasn't talking about my friends. I live in a large city and get to see many people I don't know every single day.

Incidentally, my friends are much more likely to not need to drive at all (tech or otherwise who WFH) than the average person around me.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by bawolff on Thursday April 03, 2025 @03:05PM (#43573953)
Do you often ask people you don't know if they have a driver's license?

> live in a large city

Ah yes, large cities. Famous for their rural populations.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by leflambeur on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:35PM (#43575045)
You're not arguing in good faith.

Wait, are you telling me that rural populations have less proclivity to drive?

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by bawolff on Friday April 04, 2025 @01:10AM (#43578555)
I'm just pointing out obvious ways in which you have selection bias here.

FWIW googling, allegedly 1 in 10 people in rural america do not have a license. Or at least that is the claim floating around the internet. So yes, i think figuring out if this is a real issue should include both checking on rural and urban people, along with many other demographics. It is not obvious how this situation differs between urban/rural.

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