RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 am
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2025 at 2:16 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(May 12, 2025 at 6:41 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(May 12, 2025 at 6:03 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: 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.
Oh, I see what happened.
I pointed to two Christians I know as an example of how some Christians think of theology. Thump concluded from this that these are the only two Christians I know and that my entire knowledge of how they think comes from this pair.
Not at all. I commented that you suspecting that they represented a majority of Christian thinking was really a stretch.
I never said these are the only two Christians you know. Nor did I say that this is the entirety of your knowledge about Christians. I concluded neither of these assertions on your part. Here's exactly what I wrote, so people may read your dishonesty for what it is:
(May 12, 2025 at 12:34 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Wait -- on the basis of two opinions, you're fine "suspecting" that they represent the "majority" of a couple of billion Christians?!
Not only is your sample size far to small, the fact that you're happy to publicly generalize from such a particular speaks volumes about your own thought process. Stick to philosophy, because you don't know shit about statistics or demographics or analysis.
What I did write, for those -- and I'm looking at you -- hard of English, is that citing them and then going on to say that you "suspect" (and that's not a weasel word, now is it?) that they represent the majority of Christian thinking is in common understanding rubbish.
Defend yourself rather than straw-manning me, @Belacqua. Be honest. You overstepped. Do you have the integrity to admit as much?
Yeah, I didn't think so.
