RE: Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet
August 3, 2015 at 6:41 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2015 at 7:12 pm by Aristocatt.)
Try being honest with your statistics, and I will be able to take them seriously.
The wiki page claims that the total death count across the world was between 75-430 million. Not in Europe alone.
You also seem to be so interested in being right about something that you fail to understand why 430 million is listed as a possibility.
Let's check the citations!
Oh wait, the citation that is supposed to list 430 million deaths is being cited from a fucking article that doesn't exist anymore.
Maybe a quick google search will help. Second result = information about ebola.
I understand the discrepancy we are having between the total population of the 8 biggest European countries.
I was adding turkey into mine, which actually is not reasonable in hindsight, for that I am sorry, I didn't realize I had done that. But You also removed Ukraine and Romania which is not reasonable.
Either way since you wanted to use wikipedia as a source, of the 3 citations for the scope of the black plague, 200 million is the highest estimate used.
Even with your slightly dishonest representation of European countries we have 304 > 200(world deaths, not European deaths)
So from this perspective not only has Europe bounced back, but it has made enough babies on it's own to account for the whole worlds loss of life.
If we are going to cherry pick random wikipedia quotes without reference to how likely they are we can do that to.
"It is estimated that between one-quarter and one-third of the European population (20 million people) died from the outbreak between 1348 and 1350."
"Contemporary observers, such as Jean Froissart, estimated the toll to be one-third—less an accurate assessment than an allusion to the Book of Revelation meant to suggest the scope of the plague.[13] Many rural villages were depopulated, mostly the smaller communities, as the few survivors fled to larger towns and cities leaving behind abandoned villages."
The wiki page claims that the total death count across the world was between 75-430 million. Not in Europe alone.
You also seem to be so interested in being right about something that you fail to understand why 430 million is listed as a possibility.
Let's check the citations!
Oh wait, the citation that is supposed to list 430 million deaths is being cited from a fucking article that doesn't exist anymore.
Maybe a quick google search will help. Second result = information about ebola.
I understand the discrepancy we are having between the total population of the 8 biggest European countries.
I was adding turkey into mine, which actually is not reasonable in hindsight, for that I am sorry, I didn't realize I had done that. But You also removed Ukraine and Romania which is not reasonable.
Either way since you wanted to use wikipedia as a source, of the 3 citations for the scope of the black plague, 200 million is the highest estimate used.
Even with your slightly dishonest representation of European countries we have 304 > 200(world deaths, not European deaths)
So from this perspective not only has Europe bounced back, but it has made enough babies on it's own to account for the whole worlds loss of life.
If we are going to cherry pick random wikipedia quotes without reference to how likely they are we can do that to.
"It is estimated that between one-quarter and one-third of the European population (20 million people) died from the outbreak between 1348 and 1350."
"Contemporary observers, such as Jean Froissart, estimated the toll to be one-third—less an accurate assessment than an allusion to the Book of Revelation meant to suggest the scope of the plague.[13] Many rural villages were depopulated, mostly the smaller communities, as the few survivors fled to larger towns and cities leaving behind abandoned villages."
