>You argue against cherry-picking, and then you think you can prove something with one single example?
Well... he can! He can prove, with one example, that the other person's thesis doesn't fit the facts.
And he did that.
So, yeah.
Well... he can! He can prove, with one example, that the other person's thesis doesn't fit the facts.
And he did that.
So, yeah.
A correlation is an observation that seemingly unrelated events occur in proximity to each other, temporally or otherwise.
I repeat: can you show how a single data point can contradict a statement about the absence of correlation originally claimed?
>The idea of punishment as a deterrent is hopefully dead and buried at this point.
That's an absence of correlation claim?
Maybe the examples shown gave the impression that an anti-correlation was claimed, but that is purely an invention of the reader.