• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Sure, but it’s often a clearer way to explain why a statistic is misleading.

    Provide a better one or keep quiet.

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      7 months ago

      You’re being rightfully called out by multiple people for using bad statistics. That doesn’t require better statistics to do any more than doubting Russell’s teapot requires showing that it’s actually a coffee pot.

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          7 months ago

          Personal attacks aren’t going to make people more sympathetic to your position.

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            7 months ago

            Personal attacks aren’t going to make people more sympathetic to your position.

            My position is based on facts, no matter if you feel attacked or not. Get over it.

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              7 months ago

              Even if your position were correct or based on facts, calling someone a fraud is a personal attack.

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              7 months ago

              Your position is based on a flawed understanding of one statistic. If Canonical released a hardware survey for snap, and it showed that 99% of the machines using snap were running Ubuntu, would that mean 99% of all Linux machines are running Ubuntu? No, it would mean that snap users are more likely to use Ubuntu while steam users are more likely to use SteamOS. You are seeing a very small piece of the overall picture and are making wild extrapolations from it.