(May 2, 2013 at 5:06 pm)paulpablo Wrote:Quote:And 38% of them had sex of their volition... perspective.
From a statistical perspective 38 is lower than 62.
62 is higher than 38.
And 50.1% is higher than 49.9%... struggling... to.... see... your... point.
Quote:The trend is very likely to carry on in that way due to the biology of humans, the more older you are the more likely you are to have gone through puberty and puberty is related to sex.
Well... if we keep pumping our little girls full of female cow hormones: what do you expect happens to them?
Yeah... puberty is related to sex. You know what else is related to sex? Pleasure Know what rather curious people might discover well before puberty? Masturbation, and 'playing with themselves' in general.
Quote:It is logically unlikely that you will gather statistics from a group of 9 10 11 and 12 year olds to find the 10 year olds were having less sex than the 11 year olds but the percentage of those who did were mostly not doing it willingly 11 year olds were having less sex than the 12 year olds half of which were willing but then later find out the 9 year olds were having more sex than the 10 year olds and more willingly.
On... what basis? Oh right, we're still working with three data points... and forming conclusions on what the other datapoints MUST look like without any data. I wonder what that makes us look like.
I haven't investigated his data, the data being irrelevant to my argument. I consider the whole thing a big old distraction from philosophical readability and not being hypocritical and stuff. It's really easy, and I'm dying... because you're not fucking doing it. So easy!
Challenge: form an argument which allows for what you are trying to do WITHOUT applying special pleading or arbitrariness into the argument.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day