(May 12, 2025 at 4:50 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:

(May 12, 2025 at 4:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Cultural inertia. What are you, fucking stupid?

Possibly, I certainly feel as though I'm losing brain cells.

Guard them well, then. It’s a loss you can ill afford.

Boru

(May 12, 2025 at 4:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(May 12, 2025 at 4:43 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: If it's explanatory then what's the mechanism?

Cultural inertia. What are you, fucking stupid?

Boru

A rather obvious answer

(May 12, 2025 at 5:06 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote:

(May 12, 2025 at 4:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Cultural inertia. What are you, fucking stupid?

Boru

A rather obvious answer

Well, he got the same answer from multiple users multiple times, and keeps asking the same fucking question.

Boru

(May 12, 2025 at 1:00 pm)Sheldon Wrote:

(May 12, 2025 at 12:13 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Sure, he's free to "suspect". And I'm free to point out how stupid it is to "suspect" anything about 1.2 billion others based upon talking to two -- count 'em, two! -- of them.

Indeed, and globally 1.2 billion wouldn't even cover the Catholics, this is assuming he was only talking about Christians alive today of course [...]

I was going with 50%+1 of today's Christian population, to be as generous as possible.

(May 12, 2025 at 1:13 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:

(May 12, 2025 at 12:13 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: ...based upon talking to two -- count 'em, two! -- of them.

Okay, then how many would we need? (Hint: The average study uses around 20-30 participants.)

That's irrelevant to my point, and I won't entertain your red herring. If you're so dense, or so biased, that you cannot see my point that two is an insufficient sample, you don't merit any more of my time on the matter.

(May 12, 2025 at 4:50 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:

(May 12, 2025 at 4:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Cultural inertia. What are you, fucking stupid?

Possibly, I certainly feel as though I'm losing brain cells.

This is an extremely serious situation for you ... I suspect.

Actually, I would prefer it if Christians dropped many of their more questionable beliefs, since those include prejudices against atheism and science.

I just don't think that's where they are yet -- or that it will be easy for them to get there.

(May 12, 2025 at 5:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, he got the same answer from multiple users multiple times, and keeps asking the same fucking question.

Right, because you don't enough about the position you're advocating to use terms like socialization or enculturation. Instead, we get cultural inertia, whatever that means.

(May 12, 2025 at 5:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That's irrelevant to my point, and I won't entertain your red herring. If you're so dense, or so biased, that you cannot see my point that two is an insufficient sample, you don't merit any more of my time on the matter.

Irrelevant? Not to anyone familiar with statistics, determining sample size is one of the first steps. You can't call a sample size insufficient just because you think it's small, you have to actually calculate it.

(May 12, 2025 at 5:51 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:

(May 12, 2025 at 5:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, he got the same answer from multiple users multiple times, and keeps asking the same fucking question.

Right, because you don't enough about the position you're advocating to use terms like socialization or enculturation. Instead, we get cultural inertia, whatever that means.

Wow. You are SO bad at this. I mean like steering-the-Titanic-into-the-iceberg level bad. Like Chamberlain-waving-that-bit-of-paper level bad. If being bad at this was an Olympic sport, you’d be a shoe-in for the gold. If it was a car, you’d be the Austin Allegro.

And I don’t expect you’ll get any better.

Boru