Emily Lake
Might be a replicant
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This part is pretty offensive and condescending.I know people who are busy pretending to be rational like to make these kinds of comments and try to cast doubt on other people's assumptions etc, but try to be actually reasonable here.
Except that we didn't prove that it had anything at all to do with blondeness. The blondeness is an artifact of the survey design - it is not a finding. We only asked blondes, therefore, we can only opine about blondes. But cookie liking has nothing at all to do with blondes. Blondeness and cookie-liking aren't correlated with each other. There is no relationship between being blonde and liking cookies.I'm going to assume you're smart enough to figure out that if we prove blonde children like cookies then whatever data we gathered or didn't gather on read-headed step-children has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on what we just learned about blonde children.
It's as meaningless as a finding as saying that people with size 9 feet and chipped left incisors breathe air to live... when the only people that you checked for air-dependence were people with size 9 feet and chipped left incisors. The actual truth is that ALL people breath air to live; there is no inherent and noteworthy relationship between air dependence and shoe size and tooth quality... unless you can show that that cohort of people has a dependence on air that is DIFFERENT from other people. It is not a relationship. It is artifice of bad survey design.
What you appear to be suffering from is confirmation bias, as well as a profound ignorance of survey sampling theory... and a profound insistence on not being educated beyond that ignorance.So making the assumption you're not suffering from some kind of catastrophic brain damage making you incapable of understanding basic logical structures I'm left with the conclusion you can, it's just that you can't be bothered.
As well as a profound desire to insult any opponent into submission, apparently.