• MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    It’s because they missed the point of my comment. That it’s selection bias to claim that everyone is praying to the Christian god, when statistically, that can’t be true, even if they are praying.

    The selection bias had nothing to do with selecting the planes that crashed, but selecting planes that crashed in the US, which is a much more Christian country than many other places.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago
      1. I don’t even believe OOP’s premise. There might be a majority with prayers at the end but I don’t think it’s every single one.
      2. I think they only care about the US. It’s not selection bias but ignorance about the rest of the world.

      That said, OOP’s argument wasn’t that their god is real but that deep down, everyone is religious. Still they made it into a truth claim about their religion. The commenter took the truth claim and ran with it.

      I thought about putting “/s” in my first comment but it didn’t feel quite right. It was more a thought experiment. Applying selection bias to the reply. It was only the second comment when I entered troll mode.