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Indigenous communities overwhelmingly voted yes to Australia’s voice to parliament
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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No that's literally how statistical inference works. If you think they've made an error submit a letter and get them to retract the article.
No it isn't, there's a massive gap in the statistics where the inference should be derived from. If you think I'm wrong then explain it, don't brush it off without actually saying anything meaningful.
How can you infer that an overwhelming portion of one group supported something when all you have is the combined level of support and no statistics on the individual groups, other than a ratio of population size?
It's an assumption, it's not labeled as such, that's bad journalism.
get them to retract it if you're so sure.
Yeah, sure, if I call them out for poor journalism standards they'll just roll over and accept that, because this article totally wasn't written with that deception in mind.
There's no statistical analysis here, as you implied, it's just a bunch of regions with their population size and overall votes. Hell, many of their numbers didn't even fit the narrative - they had a large majority indigenous population but more No votes, more than the nation overall. It's just bullshit and hand waving to get you to accept it as true without really thinking about it.
You're trying to set an impossible to prove boundary so you can claim that you "win" the argument. That's bollocks. If you don't have anything meaningful to say here, yourself, then kindly bugger off.