(August 10, 2020 at 1:05 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: The problem begins with bias and ends with a fallacy. Bias creates an inclination to look at the fringes of a normal distribution curve in an opposing population. If you then take the fringe as representative of the population, you run into a statistical issue known as the exception fallacy. Or if you take a belief lying at the center of the distribution and apply it towards other individuals in that population you've created an ecological fallacy.
The beliefs are not the problem; the problem is how your represent them.
Do you mean that when I see a sizable number of Christians using crusader imagery and calling themselves "prayer warriors," I can't point to that as a well represented attribute of Christians because I haven't sampled and done statistical analysis on all Christians? Be mindful that this is not how I represent them. It's how they represent themselves.
