There’s a bias for everything. Maybe even one that contradicts the bias you’re precipitating. I dunno. Whatever
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MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This mfer has never heard of selection bias.
What are the bets they’re in the US, and hearing about crashes mostly in the US?
Christianity may be the largest religion in the world, but it’s a plurality, not a majority.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 day ago
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I dunno, seems pretty rock solid that the majority of people aren’t praying to the Christian god, seeing as nowhere even close to a majority of people on earth are Christian.
There are all sorts of religions out there, and many who don’t believe in religion at all.
I do agree that all humans are prone to bias, that’s why it’s so important to be aware of it in order to mitigate it.
The OOP making some stupid religious claims, definitely is not aware.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Same for the other side. All the countless times where God miraculously saves the plane in the last moment lost to history. No news report, no one will check the black box. It’s just another Tuesday
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
why is this being downvoted
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s because they missed the point of my comment. That it’s selection bias to claim that everyone is praying to the Christian god, when statistically, that can’t be true, even if they are praying.
The selection bias had nothing to do with selecting the planes that crashed, but selecting planes that crashed in the US, which is a much more Christian country than many other places.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That said, OOP’s argument wasn’t that their god is real but that deep down, everyone is religious. Still they made it into a truth claim about their religion. The commenter took the truth claim and ran with it.
I thought about putting “/s” in my first comment but it didn’t feel quite right. It was more a thought experiment. Applying selection bias to the reply. It was only the second comment when I entered troll mode.
freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because there is no magic sky magician letting kids die a gruesome leukemia death, while saving a specific plane because a special favorite person of his happens to be on board the aircraft. There’s just physics and mechanics and pilots and things going right and things going wrong.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The comment is obviously sarcasm / a joke
Making the sarcastic statement that “we don’t hear about god saving planes at the last moment but it does happen”
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Because of Poe’s Law. Sometimes I try to make my intentions obvious but sometimes I just don’t care
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Did you mean Poe’s Law here? That would imply you only made the claim about divine selection bias sarcastically, and we all just thought you were being serious.