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Originally Posted by Shawnski
IF you wish to argue the merits (truthfulness) of what the young girls said, I would respectfully suggest you listen to that Christina Hoff Sommers posted within that video (and others, if you want further backup) and confirm her findings.
Plain and simple.
The rest of your post seems to suggest that you are OK with using the girls in this fashion?
Now, as for "truthfulness".
Data and statistics are very easily manipulated to show what the user desires.
Truthfully? I am a database god. I can slice and dice data to the ends of earth.
I can make you look tall or short. Thin or fat. Dumb or smart.
Take your pick, I can make a "study" look exactly as I want it to appear for my intentions.
And no, I am NOT for hire to do this for anyone. I wouldn't do it.. period.
I want data to reflect factual information that is time tested. I seek out anomalies and changes within data to see shifts. I look to ensure anomalies are not considered in reporting unless truly relevant.
What I am seeing perpetuated on the interwebs and even here (regarding this video's topic) is quite often false information. Or misleading at best.
And that does NO ONE any favours.
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If that is true, then the challenge is even worse. It means I can't rely on any secondary source because they may be manipulating the statistics. I therefore need to analyze the data myself, including the methods by which it was collected. And I'll need a basic understanding of statistical analysis to do that.
All that to say, I'll almost certainly not discover the truth without a lot of effort. So unless I'm really interested in the subject matter, I'm likely not to respond to the video: after all, what can I really say without doing a lot of research first? Which is again, probably one of the main reasons you didn't get a response to this video.