Comment by pessimizer
13 hours ago
There's absolutely nothing in those numbers to argue against. They are simply providing fluffy quantitative declarations in order for people who don't even claim any particular knowledge or even understanding of the details of the metric (such as yourself) to argue from authority.
If they actually said something, it would be much less effective.
> We're not talking about a few % difference here.
How may freedom percent is it again? Do you lose 1% or 20% for failing to allow foreign ownership of utilities? How many percent do you gain for stopping Russian misinformation?
The metric was carefully crafted by a group of experts as means of communicating a complicated topic.
I'm not going to discuss it further if you don't have anything substantial to bring to the table.
'experts' lmao. Your entire argument boils down to an appeal to authority fallacy.
That fallacy does not apply here as the authority is legitimate and relevant.
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