09-18-2015, 05:57 PM
(09-18-2015, 05:43 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Nothing is discussed based on merit anymore, or whether it's even the best available option. Every policy or proposal is viewed strictly thru the prism of whether or not it supports that analyst's particular agenda.
Yes, it's a superficial surface examination that this policy appears to go against their agenda, and so they will discuss the weaknesses as the worst thing ever while completely ignoring the positives.
Even worse, we're seeing the same politicization of our sciences. Or at least much of what is covered in the media is going to not only be cherry-picked, but slanted and distorted to support an agenda.
It's something that frustrates me so much. I want the data. Show me the data set and give me the numbers. Let me read the actual meat of the study, not what your abstract of the abstract is. If you can show me with the actual data that my understanding or opinion is flawed then I want to know. That's how we can have a discussion about the actual merits. How did they come to the conclusions they came to?
We're just expected to swallow the tidbits that they throw at us and take them at face value, and of course the way things are phrased or the data used in the write up will vary with the source.
Ugh, just such a pain.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
