Data! Data! Data! Or maybe not.

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You know it's a recurring theme with me, when there's a controversy, to demand the data first? You've seen me do that with global warming, with quality of education in Wisconsin, and with the economic "recovery." It's a policy that's worked very well for me for years

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So what is that, an hour and a half then? You want to compare the preceding 24 hours to an hour and a half? That's your apples-to-oranges comparison now after you've actually had a chance to look at the data?

That reminds me of something I read recently. What was it? Oh yeah:

He just can't ever seem to say something useful unless he posts two separate comments back-to-back to say contradictory things; that's the only way he's assured of getting anything right...

If he has the approximate intelligence equivalent to a million monkeys with a million typewriters, all he has to do is type the same volume of random shit as those monkeys and maybe some of it will end up correct.

I'm sure, if comparing a 24-hour period to a 1.5-hour period is a bit too obvious, you can look harder and find equivalent five-minute periods on Thursday and Friday, at the same time of day, that would make your new point very nicely now too. And it could even be correct. It would't have any more relevance to your original comment than this one did, though, so it wouldn't really help you save face now.

Thanks for sharing that article from 2007, by the way. It's a perfect example of the cherry-picking that gets you laughed at when you're trying to score points, rather than be a useful predictor.