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Originally Posted by DaFace
It's a truly astounding level of effort that they both put into arguing a point that they knew the other one would never be convinced about.
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Clearly some people like to argue. And I presume they were arguing for the wider audience more than expecting to suddenly convince each other.
But this thread does make me sad.
A lot of things are really hard to tease out data. Like what does a change in a given tax bracket do, if anything, to economic growth?
What will the climate be like in twenty years?
But billions of people have had various types of vaccines or none at all. And billions of people have gotten covid.
If as a society we are incapable of crunching that relatively straightforward and massive amount (we ain't talking small sample size) of data, in order to answer simple questions about efficacy and side effects...
Hard to see how society can have any sort of informed discussion about topic that is deeper than say a cultural war.
Seems grim.