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Gonna say you don't have a finger in the pulse and can't read the room.
Comment history of antagonism. I wouldn’t expect thoughtful replies.
This terminally online room? I should use it to gauge the legitimacy of the poll which I criticize for being irrelevant because it was entirely online? I only guessed buddy do you mean to tell me the poll was actually taken in the real world?!
No, but I can see how clever you must be for doin' all that noodle-bakin' critical thinking you're putting into your thesis here.
I'm actually-factually talking about the friends and neighbors and family I have. The guy working the grocery store checkout. The teacher at my kids school. The girls at at the art center where my kid be volunteers on weekends. The stage director and castmates at my wife's theater group. Preeeety much anyone I casually interact with. You literally stand out as one of the few exceptions.
Is that not online enough for ya? Have I touched enough grass to be considered a legitimate data point for your bullshit scorecard? Or are we still huffing selection bias fumes and dancing to the Dunning-Kruger Memorial waltz?
So I should just take your terminally online ass as factual instead of using my own observations and personal relationships to make my own judgement?
To answer your questions:
Nope still too online.
Nope you can't talk your way into this you are still on the outside.
Selection bias fumes are you freaking kidding me? All I did was assume it was an online poll correct me if I am wrong. In the meantime: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2378023118791080 https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2020/02/18/assessing-the-risks-to-online-polls-from-bogus-respondents/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_poll
Jesus christ dude I'm just going to ignore that you brought up the dunning-kruger effect otherwise this is just going to be a verbal bashing.