Comment by renjimen
1 day ago
It's providing a single geographic data point to you, for free. You're welcome to do your own research if you want a complete picture.
1 day ago
It's providing a single geographic data point to you, for free. You're welcome to do your own research if you want a complete picture.
Nice, you’ve just described how confirmation bias works.
Out of context, incomplete single data points that feels like one’s already held view is how confirmation bias works.
All data points can be called confirmation bias if you frame them that way. The question is whether the data is accurate, not whether it's complete.
The site isn't claiming regulations are the only factor, just that they're sufficient to make things impossible regardless of other factors.
“The question is whether the data is accurate, not whether it is complete”
Oh so Lies of omission don’t exist? Deception researchers will be very keen to hear how that works.
So if someone Mormon bubbles a photo of you that also has a kid in it, you’re fine being arrested for indecency and registering as a sex offender? After all, that’s just omitting a few pixels, not a lie or deception in your book.
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I like that your vague response to the question is either “this provides no value without context” or “the value it provides without context is a secret that only I know” but phrased in a silly way
Fair point. My actual conclusion: California has made it structurally impossible to manufacture things it consumes, and has exported the environmental burden to places with fewer protections.
You have a good point. California is an area that makes some things but not all things. From this data we can conclude that California is an area on earth where there are people.
This places California somewhere between the north pole (produces no things) and replicators from Star Trek (produces all of the things) in terms of productivity. This is useful information because it makes the reader feel li