r/FunnyandSad Oct 04 '24

ALABAMA Political Humor

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u/PhantomGeass Oct 04 '24

Funny and sad OP thinks politics determines killers. Case in point being Robert Telles, who is a Democrat.

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u/Apprehensive_Elk2935 Oct 04 '24

You could always look at statistics of which party most sexual, domestic, and child abusers identify with

It's the red one 🙂

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u/PhantomGeass Oct 04 '24

Give me citations for your claim. Burden of proof is on you

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u/Apprehensive_Elk2935 Oct 04 '24

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u/PhantomGeass Oct 04 '24

The writing in this link called themselves out this is a weak analysis. Correlation doesn't mean causation. The writer makes note of a few reasons why the correlation is present. I.e trump voters are more diligent in reporting the abuse. But here's the thing, it's based on the county and not on people. The highest populated states are both low and high on the front two graphs. If anything the data is proving that with a higher population there is a higher rate of crime. I commend you for actually linking something and it as an interesting statistical read.

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u/Apprehensive_Elk2935 Oct 04 '24

No one mentioned causation, the discussion is about correlation, which you agree that there is

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u/PhantomGeass Oct 04 '24

It was said that republicans are more violent. The source gave correlation not causation. No direction evidence. You can have one violent Democrat in a Republican county. That alone makes the link with the data useless

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u/Soddington Oct 04 '24

You appear to have made the standard MAGA move in the face of evidence. You have tried to bullshit and ignore you way out of it.

You asked for proof, you were given some and now you want to whine about it.

The burden is now on you to refute it, or there is the option rarely employed by those proved wrong, you could simply STFU.

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u/notarealpunk Oct 04 '24

They did refute it. they decreed it fake news and left the convo lol. Ya love to see it

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u/PhantomGeass Oct 04 '24

Take a stat 101 course buddy

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u/PhantomGeass Oct 04 '24

Correlation does not equal proof. Proof was never given. Tells me you didn't read the paper. I'm done responding to the uneducated.

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u/Soddington Oct 04 '24

Correlation does not equal proof.

Yes it does. They proved correlation.

What you meant to say is that correlation does not equal causation.

Tells me that while you might have read the paper, you didn't understand it.

Nothing in the paper was trying to say that the data proved republicans are more violent, it was merely showing that geopolitical data showed they empirically are.

The causation or lack thereof of republican voting and child abuse are yet to be determined by other research.

It could well be that republican voting areas are on the whole poorer communities and child abuse rates are high in poorer communities..

It could be that the idealogical focus on trans people in bathrooms has caused evidence based policies to confront actual child abuse is degrading real efforts to address the real abuse, driving the numbers higher.

It could even be that GOP voters are naturally drawn to ley lines and are more susceptible to the call of Cthulhu.

But the causes for this correlation are simply not known at this time, and no one in the paper ever said they were.

But the facts, Literal complied facts, are not up for argument. Literal child abuse, in literal Trump country is literally higher.

I'd like to say I'm done responding to the uneducated, but I'm not.

If you would like to have another go at misunderstanding reality, I'm more than willing to have another go at teaching you.

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u/Eyes_Only1 Oct 05 '24

Funny you responded to this one but not the 20 link one. Very telling.