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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (44453)7/28/2010 6:50:09 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Only after "particularly".

Just throwing demographic in to the statement doesn't mean the statement is only about demographics.

If I say "all healthy normal mammals, particularly dogs, have four legs", then my statement is still false. Because its a statement about mammals.

Similarly (assuming any large trends at all have no fluctuations, which I believe to be the case, despite such trends likely being very rate), when you said - "Yet ALL large trends --- (particularly large ones involving large human populations as we were talking about here) --- have fluctuations *within* the data series", it was a statement about large trends, not large demographic trends.

Yes the statement applies in a stronger way to demographic trends, just as my hypothetical statement applies more to dogs than to other mammals, but it first applies to large trends in general, just as mine first applies to mammals.
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