extreme "only bigots say 2+2=4" energy here https://twitter.com/les_ja/status/1323133581326127105 …pic.twitter.com/WPDsjtlCU8
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3/ The problem with all of these "smart takes" about how 2+2 can = 5 , if we're dealing with a certain kind of modulo arithmetic, or how replacement fertility don't real if we have immigration, or blah blah blah is that it's motte and bailey / non central example fallacy. >
4/ The people trying to argue that it's not real are obviously smart enough to understand the core point being made, and could make strong defenses of it, if they cared to, but they've got politics that makes it fun to downplay the point / mock the point makers, so they contrive
3/ oh, they're not? I'm sorry. I shouldn't have claimed that they were. Could you point me to the tweet where I made that claim, so I can follow up with a correction? Thanks!https://twitter.com/howisthewater/status/1323369938476765186 …
4/ Your "negative natural increase" conflates two things: birth rates and death rates If I take a population and reduce the birth rate from 1.01 replacement to 0.99 replacement, but lower the death rate by 10%, the population increases IN THE SHORT TERMhttps://twitter.com/les_ja/status/1323366727875403777 …
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