You keep saying paint a bad picture. That usually means unfair spin. I'm not sure that's the case here.
As far as your assertion about the Bailout King song, I disagree. Certainly if we were looking at 100% solid objective evidence then what you suggested is all we can conclude. I don't know about you, but I don't make decisions only on a 100% chance of truth.
Subculture wise, I don't give a shit what some random anime con subculture does. I care quite a bit, and I believe quite reasonably, about the behavior of a group who controls a significant portion of the US and Global economy.
Much like the supreme court, I apply strict scrutiny, although in a more colloquial sense, to issues with broader social significance.
Certainly if we were looking at 100% solid objective evidence then what you suggested is all we can conclude. I don't know about you, but I don't make decisions only on a 100% chance of truth.
This would be evidence for the attitudes our reporter is attributing to his subjects... if the reporting was unbiased, not in the sense of "lacking an ulterior motive" but in the sense of "proportionately likely to report each option". (Technically individual data points are still evidence, but potentially much weaker; aggregated ones can in so...
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