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You seem to misunderstand either what a straw man argument
Posted on: May 23, 2020 at 20:15:29 CT
JeffB MU
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is, or my response to your post.
A straw man argument, of course, would have been if I argued against an argument you had not made and pretended that that was your argument and had destroyed it rather than the one you had actually made.
That was not the case at all.
I'll recap for you:
Someone had posted a link to the CNN article in a thread below. It pointed to new CDC "best estimates" that some 35% of the infections were asymptomatic. In a significant way that is good news, of course.
On the other hand, those numbers, if accurate, have a downside... namely that the % of people infected in Missouri & most other places is lower than we would have hoped. That would mean our "herd immunity" is still relatively low... roughly 4.268% of the Missouri population infected and presumably with at least some immunity. I was hoping it would have been higher than that, and I think others probably were thinking that as well.
I crunched the numbers & posted them in a new thread. No fear mongering, just a posting of the evidence we have available.
You responded that the number crunching was "built on sand".
I replied http://www.tigerboard.com/boards/view.php?message=16955880
"Not sure about sand, though it's still fairly early in the epidemic.
Do you have any other numbers or estimates that you consider more reliable?"
That is not even close to mischaracterizing your argument. I was defending my own posting of the current information available to us in an effort to try and gauge our current infection levels, which seems to be a pretty important piece of information as the debate rages over what types of actions, if any we as individuals should take and to assess whether our governments are overreacting and if so to what extent.
The alternative is to either try and discern how and where we could improve the info available, or find better alternative information upon which to form opinions and take actions or to ignore what is available and to form our opinions and take actions based upon... nothing?
A straw man argument, of course, would have been if I argued against an argument you had not made and pretended that that was your argument and had destroyed it rather than the one you had actually made.
That was not the case at all.
I'll recap for you:
Someone had posted a link to the CNN article in a thread below. It pointed to new CDC "best estimates" that some 35% of the infections were asymptomatic. In a significant way that is good news, of course.
On the other hand, those numbers, if accurate, have a downside... namely that the % of people infected in Missouri & most other places is lower than we would have hoped. That would mean our "herd immunity" is still relatively low... roughly 4.268% of the Missouri population infected and presumably with at least some immunity. I was hoping it would have been higher than that, and I think others probably were thinking that as well.
I crunched the numbers & posted them in a new thread. No fear mongering, just a posting of the evidence we have available.
You responded that the number crunching was "built on sand".
I replied http://www.tigerboard.com/boards/view.php?message=16955880
"Not sure about sand, though it's still fairly early in the epidemic.
Do you have any other numbers or estimates that you consider more reliable?"
That is not even close to mischaracterizing your argument. I was defending my own posting of the current information available to us in an effort to try and gauge our current infection levels, which seems to be a pretty important piece of information as the debate rages over what types of actions, if any we as individuals should take and to assess whether our governments are overreacting and if so to what extent.
The alternative is to either try and discern how and where we could improve the info available, or find better alternative information upon which to form opinions and take actions or to ignore what is available and to form our opinions and take actions based upon... nothing?
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You seem to misunderstand either what a straw man argument - JeffB MU - 5/23 20:15:29