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<blockquote data-quote="Envisioner" data-source="post: 7973625" data-attributes="member: 6749263"><p>Meme-tier non-responses really don't accomplish all that much. I get the temptation, I did one just an hour or so ago; even so, it's not impressive.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The scientific method has nothing to do with "statistical analysis of data". The scientific method consists of constructing a hypothesis, performing experiments to test it, and having others perform similar experiments to see if they get the same result, then correcting the hypothesis if necessary, before formulating it into the final form as an empirically proven theory. Hence my example about hooking people up to a brain scan, to find out whether they're actually being measurably impacted by these images in the way that sociologists (who aren't real scientists, because they don't deal in anything objective or empirically measurable) say that they are being.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I haven't taken any phrenology classes either. College isn't free, and time is limited. I only study subjects that I believe have enough actual validity to be worth studying, and then I do it in my own time, on my own recognizance, like Leonardo DaVinci would have, instead of just relying on demagogues to instill into me whatever beliefs they would like me to have.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's a paraphrase of the exact point you brought up, when you said that seeing these images will make women feel inadequate or whatever. I maintain that you are simply wrong, that your anecdotal evidence of "I once knew a person who reacted this way" does not prove that people in general react this way. The ones who do, I assert it is because they have been indoctrinated to do so, by a system that finds it politically expedient to do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Envisioner, post: 7973625, member: 6749263"] Meme-tier non-responses really don't accomplish all that much. I get the temptation, I did one just an hour or so ago; even so, it's not impressive. The scientific method has nothing to do with "statistical analysis of data". The scientific method consists of constructing a hypothesis, performing experiments to test it, and having others perform similar experiments to see if they get the same result, then correcting the hypothesis if necessary, before formulating it into the final form as an empirically proven theory. Hence my example about hooking people up to a brain scan, to find out whether they're actually being measurably impacted by these images in the way that sociologists (who aren't real scientists, because they don't deal in anything objective or empirically measurable) say that they are being. I haven't taken any phrenology classes either. College isn't free, and time is limited. I only study subjects that I believe have enough actual validity to be worth studying, and then I do it in my own time, on my own recognizance, like Leonardo DaVinci would have, instead of just relying on demagogues to instill into me whatever beliefs they would like me to have. It's a paraphrase of the exact point you brought up, when you said that seeing these images will make women feel inadequate or whatever. I maintain that you are simply wrong, that your anecdotal evidence of "I once knew a person who reacted this way" does not prove that people in general react this way. The ones who do, I assert it is because they have been indoctrinated to do so, by a system that finds it politically expedient to do so. [/QUOTE]
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