tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post6894375013980515037..comments2023-10-26T07:19:41.446-05:00Comments on Science Avenger: What The Obama Bitter Flap Tells us About Our PoliticsScienceAvengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00855046387193200080noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-48816042411807102152008-04-23T09:28:00.000-05:002008-04-23T09:28:00.000-05:00I agree antirely Luke. The media has come to refl...I agree antirely Luke. The media has come to reflect the public at large, which has always had time grasping any proportion other than 0%, 100%, and 50/50. General trends and clear differences between group averages get ignored.ScienceAvengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00855046387193200080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-59867115177832330342008-04-22T23:34:00.000-05:002008-04-22T23:34:00.000-05:00Well, I live in small town NC on the fringes of th...Well, I live in small town NC on the fringes of the country. There are a lot of decent folks around here, and more than a few colorful characters. I think you are being unduly harsh, but my first reaction to Obama's comments were "So? Did he say something that wasn't true?". I know some people, a noisy minority, that he described perfectly.<BR/>I also have also noted a media or societal tendency to make all quantifiers universal. He was talking about <I>some</I> people in blue-collar-small-town Pennsylvania, not <I>all</I> of them, but such subtleties are apparently too complicated.Luke H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17526959547500069166noreply@blogger.com