Presumably these people started out as speaking for 99% of Americans, but now that the movement has gone international, that no longer makes sense. It’s the nature of this beast to be slightly incoherent.
Who said anything about it being from a single website? Who said the submitters were the ones with the computers?
You originally linked to a website called “We are the 99%”, which I had alluded to earlier. You didn’t say anything about looking at other websites, so what else was I supposed to assume?
While it’s true that they themselves may not directly own the computer, merely having access to the Internet is something that many poor people in the United States simply don’t have. That “those who describe themselves as the 99%” do not actually represent “99% of Americans” or “99% of people” is orthogonal to my point about availability bias.
I have taken a statistically relevant sampling size of the protestors who self-apellate as “99%”, and found that the overwhelming majority of them exhibit seriously poor economic planning abilities in various ways.
To estimate any scalar quantity from a population size of even 50,000, at 95% confidence, with a 5% margin of error, one would have to sample around 380 people. You’re not even doing anything as rigorous as statistics. Nevermind that your criteria for judging “seriously poor economic planning abilities” is likely ad-hoc.
Conversely, if you want to convince anyone else about your beliefs regarding the protest movement, you’ll just have to provide actual evidence.
Presumably these people started out as speaking for 99% of Americans, but now that the movement has gone international, that no longer makes sense. It’s the nature of this beast to be slightly incoherent.
You originally linked to a website called “We are the 99%”, which I had alluded to earlier. You didn’t say anything about looking at other websites, so what else was I supposed to assume?
While it’s true that they themselves may not directly own the computer, merely having access to the Internet is something that many poor people in the United States simply don’t have. That “those who describe themselves as the 99%” do not actually represent “99% of Americans” or “99% of people” is orthogonal to my point about availability bias.
To estimate any scalar quantity from a population size of even 50,000, at 95% confidence, with a 5% margin of error, one would have to sample around 380 people. You’re not even doing anything as rigorous as statistics. Nevermind that your criteria for judging “seriously poor economic planning abilities” is likely ad-hoc.
Conversely, if you want to convince anyone else about your beliefs regarding the protest movement, you’ll just have to provide actual evidence.