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In reply to the discussion: I don't care what anyone thinks about their right to own guns [View all]MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)). You seem to not only trust in speculation, but speculation that fits YOUR idea of what data is correct only. You just assert it as if it were fact. Worse still, what you claimed would be hard, if not impossible to falsify. So essentially you just made something up and it's true in your mind no matter what.
Since it's not falsifiable and you're making the claim that disagrees with the data, the responsibility is on you to prove it true, not just assert it true.
Again as for the speculation I presented, these were merely possibilities that could make the numbers go the other way. I have no idea if they're true or not (or to what extent) just like I have no idea whether your claim is true or not (or to what extent). I don't put stock in speculation. I'd investigate it if I did it for a living - but outside of that, I treat it as all rubbish for now.
A simple analogy would be like the conservatives who claimed the polls were wrong about Romney-Obama or McCain-Obama and that people would tell a pollster that they supported Obama because they didn't want to be perceived as racist or because conservatives/republican voters would be viewed as "bad people". Many republicans and conservatives asserted this as FACT and it was unfalsifiable. Until the election. In which case they were proven wrong.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/266615-study-finds-ppp-kos-the-most-accurate-pollsters-in-2012
So same deal. You can't just assert something as fact with mere speculation. You've got to give some evidence.