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Reasoning

TB — 2/23/2009 6:32:01 PM (archived)

Anybody can chart observed data. It is essential to accurately figure out cause and effect instead of pulling imagined causes out of your ass.

The writer's "reasoning" was crap. I showed why.

This chart, from a link in another post, is an example of crap "reasoning" from the other side. Here, it's a bit more obvious.

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The whole thread (52 posts)

• The roots of liberal condescension - TB - 2/20/2009 5:58:46 PM
  • A scandal in Bohemia - ER - 2/23/2009 2:30:18 PM
    • The new world. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/24/2009 9:51:11 PM
      • And we need the conservatives to save the middle class from the wealthy? (n/t) - alcaray - 2/24/2009 11:54:30 PM
        • They're arsonists bringing gas to the fire. (n/t) - Bowser - 2/25/2009 4:50:17 AM
          • That would be from the beans. (n/t) - TB - 2/25/2009 5:04:13 AM
      • You're just getting around to figuring this out? - ER - 2/24/2009 11:32:21 PM
        • Make up your mind... - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/25/2009 12:07:21 AM
          • "Take away the middle class.... - ER - 2/25/2009 1:09:54 AM
            • Getting "Rich" - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/25/2009 2:16:05 AM
              • Are you a Red? - ER - 2/25/2009 2:35:11 AM
                • I'm painfully honest. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/25/2009 3:45:15 AM
                  • So you and I are in perfect agreement - ER - 2/25/2009 11:40:44 AM
          • Both of you are completely full of beans. (n/t) - TB - 2/25/2009 12:25:13 AM
            • And their mothers wear Army boots, right? (n/t) - Bowser - 2/25/2009 5:35:18 AM
              • Hey, *I* used to wear Army boots! - TB - 2/25/2009 6:29:28 PM
            • FLAME is the place for flatulence, even if it is a bit risky. - ER - 2/25/2009 1:18:02 AM
    • Welcome back - azstrummer - 2/23/2009 3:50:00 PM
      • Hell, I'd buy. But I won't drink with you. - Bowser - 2/23/2009 6:59:46 PM
        • re: Hell, I'd buy. But I won't drink with you. - Lindy - 2/23/2009 7:37:20 PM
      • "I'll buy...." - Lindy - 2/23/2009 6:58:01 PM
      • I'll hold you to that. - ER - 2/23/2009 4:40:38 PM
        • After a few with Art, Lindy, and Bowser...comonamyhouse... - Jody - 2/25/2009 1:51:13 AM
        • You bailed out of stocks in the 80s? (n/t) - TB - 2/23/2009 5:11:50 PM
          • Yep - ER - 2/23/2009 5:36:13 PM
            • re: Yep - TB - 2/23/2009 6:06:43 PM
              • The Gospel According to DeMille - ER - 2/23/2009 6:20:41 PM
                • Reasoning - TB - 2/23/2009 6:32:01 PM
                  • None dare call it reason. - ER - 2/23/2009 6:57:49 PM
                    • re: None dare call it reason. - gbaikie - 2/24/2009 3:35:45 AM
  • Probably liberal superiority. Makes sense. (n/t) - Bowser - 2/22/2009 10:22:49 PM
  • The truth of Wilsonian statesmanship - Mary Anne - 2/22/2009 5:20:29 PM
    • I doubt people didn't "understand" - RobVG - 2/22/2009 6:54:14 PM
      • Oh, I do. - Mary Anne - 2/22/2009 7:34:39 PM
        • I agree - Eri - 2/22/2009 9:43:36 PM
          • Mythology - TB - 2/22/2009 10:10:57 PM
            • Define "all". - Mary Anne - 2/22/2009 10:49:29 PM
  • It was the title of the goddam article. (n/t) - TB - 2/21/2009 6:14:22 AM
  • A suggestion Tom........ - Lindy - 2/20/2009 11:47:36 PM
    • I agree Lindy - azstrummer - 2/23/2009 3:58:04 PM
    • His link wasn't bad this time - McFly - 2/21/2009 4:32:32 AM
  • Oooh, that reminds me, new Real Time with Bill Maher show tonight! (n/t) - et - 2/20/2009 11:10:15 PM
  • WSJ Op-ed page still extruding brown-gold I see... - et - 2/20/2009 10:38:41 PM
  • That's laughable coming from the right in general, and you in particular - McFly - 2/20/2009 10:02:54 PM
    • You don't know the half of it. - TB - 2/20/2009 10:42:14 PM
      • Is this self-parody/humor or are you serious? (n/t) - alcaray - 2/20/2009 11:52:59 PM
        • And it's much more subtle than The Onion. - Bowser - 2/21/2009 2:17:58 AM
          • Well I didn't read the link. - alcaray - 2/21/2009 2:52:09 AM
            • Now that IS condescension. I doubt he realized it though. - Bowser - 2/21/2009 3:38:34 AM
      • "I cut a lot of people more slack than they deserve. " - Lindy - 2/20/2009 11:50:08 PM
  • Check the folks and opinions printed in that edition of the WSJ. - Bowser - 2/20/2009 8:52:14 PM
    • Lips get tired? (n/t) - TB - 2/20/2009 9:26:44 PM