Friday, October 16, 2020
Fish in a barrel
This stinking pile of rotten toxic schizophrenic wordsalad appeared in the "social" "science" area of Eurekalert.
The increasing threat of foreign interference in elections has driven six nations to take similar approaches to combat this pervasive threat. A review of the details to their responses brings out valuable differences and insights. ... “The United States experienced significant interference in our 2016 presidential election and Russia seems just as active in their efforts to influence our presidential election this year. We have much to learn from the experiences of other nations that have attempted to address this growing problem,” states Election Law Journal Editor-in-Chief David Canon, University of Wisconsin.In the first fucking place, real science starts with CONSTANTS AND VARIABLES. CONSTANTS AND VARIABLES. FUCKING CONSTANTS AND FUCKING VARIABLES. Real science asks if an entity called "election" is a variable. When this "election" entity happens, does it cause anything in the real world to change? The answer is a firm and consistent NO. Null hypothesis perfectly valid. After that, there's no reason to discuss this empty entity called "election". In the second fucking place, if you're fucking stupid enough to skip the first fucking step, the rest of this shit doesn't even follow from AVAILABLE FUCKING DATA. Facebook and Twitter have both stated firmly and NUMERICALLY that Russian advertising was a barely measurable subpercentage of all advertising, and very little of the Russian advertising was actually related to candidates. FB and Twitter are certainly not aligned with Orange Man Witch Powder, so they would have no reason to underrate the Russian influence. Their natural bias would run the other way, but they were refreshingly honest about this set of facts.
Labels: Constants and Variables, Fucking constants and fucking variables
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