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No, of itself this is an accurate measure. I think what you are really disputing is if it is a useful measure.

Yep. More women not working at all does not affect the stats from a calculation point of view - but it would be interesting to consider that it very well may have an impact on the actual numbers. What I mean here is that households (with a man/woman couple, of which there are many) where only...

As per my previous post, this is not the case. The 10 women that work 1 day a week effectively have their pay multiplied by five before doing the calculation.

Yes but the very next line says this: https://www.wgea.gov.au/reporting-guide/ps/calculate-gpg#_32-how-is-the-figure-calculated

Yeah air bnb is ****ed. Too pissed to go into detail but multiple issues.

as in as PM, I don't wish misadventure on anybody

hopefully gone soon

Well he is just pandering to the nuffies of course. Dear me, how dare we have a generation of kids who question things.

..probably via their parent's "mum and dad" investment property.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/shaky-foundations-england-s-health-system-to-review-all-transgender-treatment-20240410-p5fiq8.html Looks like after a year-long review the NHS want to put the brakes on some medical interventions for minors. I feel there is so much about this we do not...

Really interesting stuff - I haven't watched The Project in ages, seems their annoying habit of inserting a s**t joke into serious stories so the viewers don't get too upset still persists. But I digress. What should be making people angry is families living in cars, sky high rents for...

Yes - salaries/wages are more about your value to capital for sure - if you can make rich people richer or at least protect their capital then in a free market of course you demand a higher price. The value that 100 000 people put in the dignity of elderly people who need care is swamped by the...

I agree. The key thing is that it is the method, the papers, and so on that needs to speak the truth here. The authority kind of 'has no authority', the data does. Hopefully that's not confusing! e.g. Dr John Campbell. Is an authority on infectious diseases, so worth listening to. But when he...

This. And it's opposite too - overvaluing certain types of work. Traditionally female jobs like aged care, nursing, primary teaching = really important. Stock broking - studies have shown that cats and throwing darts is just as effective.

So I meant in the polio days, fear of getting polio was a strong motivator to get vaccinated. People's lived experience saw to that. With modern opposition to vaccines, this has somehow been flipped and the anti vaxx own the fear space. why? Who knows, but perhaps they've worked well for so...

The logical angle to dismissing experts is that it falls under the Appeal to Authority fallacy. On that, they have a point. The problem with really complex issues is that none of us have time to be across the detail for all of them. Where possible we should read the results (or even try to...

This is true, but I think with these types there is something else at play. The cookers feel like they are "in on some special info not everyone is awake to", and get a bit of a superiority feeling about themselves with these beliefs. I recon fear can be used for good too. Tipping plenty more...

Spot on. x1000

Bloody oath it's a problem. And yeah the medical experts that have gone rouge are a worry. I regularly watched Dr John Campbell videos at the start of COVID, and they started out factual and interesting. For whatever reason I stopped, and only recently realised he went off the rails big time...

Yeah I guess so in the sense that he thinks he's an authority on anything he cares to open his mouth about these days. (Not alone there in the RW grifter world) Bit of humility does wonders for one's credibility.

I guess I don't take sides and play the man as hard as you do. That is not intended as a barb but more a genuine perception of our difference here. As a thought experiment, I would look at that video and imagine it was a bot we had never met before saying what he says. Some of it would be...

Funk's commentary actually makes this good, I was dubious about putting time into watching it but I liked how concisely he refuted points which, it had to be said, are not unique to JP so have a broader appeal for refutation.

Ohh jeepers. In which part of that video that you didn't watch is he pretending to be an authority? I don't know why you bother with this thread to be honest. You have no chance of understanding my point because you won't engage with it in good faith. So to dismiss it is pretty disrespectful...

Nor do most people, but they can still engage in purposeful conversation on the topic.

The problem is not so much that he has no expertise in the field, more that he refuses to use any expertise he would have, ie how to apply the scientific method or analyse basic data Just a shitshow now.

He posited that the "new, different" nature of the mRNA vaccines made them inherently possibly dangerous (plausible) but ignored the efforts that went in to showing they were just as safe /effective as other vaccines. The commentator described them as mere "talking points" without substance...

I'm genuinely worried about the guy. I still see him as a human and he really doesn't look well.

Well why comment then, really?

Seems he has some basic valid questions or ideas (some might perjoratively call "thought bubbles") that he simply didn't put any effort into following up on and adding some meat to, in order to turn them into an actual point. Just relying on trying to win some rhetorical joust. Also perhaps his...

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