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9 more days to the election. I sent out my absentee ballot for NJ earlier this week and naturally insist everyone that can read this participate too.
I only have one more thing to say about the current political situation. Two words actually. Case studies.
These are situations where you make a statement about the population using a single person to justify your reasoning. If anyone advances a platform that increasingly relies on this approach it suggests desperation. If I were to read a journal article advocating a new type of therapy because it worked on one guy (let's call him Joe and say he's maybe a plumber) would you believe it? Or would it make more sense if it worked for hundreds or even thousands of people? The fact that the first approach just looks at one person suggests that it doesn't have the effectiveness to truly translate to a larger population. Someone advocating such an approach does so usually as a last resort in conjunction with attacking other approaches as a result of general insecurity. Sounds pretty desperate to me. And awfully familiar.
I only have one more thing to say about the current political situation. Two words actually. Case studies.
These are situations where you make a statement about the population using a single person to justify your reasoning. If anyone advances a platform that increasingly relies on this approach it suggests desperation. If I were to read a journal article advocating a new type of therapy because it worked on one guy (let's call him Joe and say he's maybe a plumber) would you believe it? Or would it make more sense if it worked for hundreds or even thousands of people? The fact that the first approach just looks at one person suggests that it doesn't have the effectiveness to truly translate to a larger population. Someone advocating such an approach does so usually as a last resort in conjunction with attacking other approaches as a result of general insecurity. Sounds pretty desperate to me. And awfully familiar.
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