Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why?
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 4 days agoThe burden of evidence belongs to the person making a claim. I cannot provide evidence to prove a negative. If you are claiming ageism exists and is the actual reason you cannot find a job then you must provide the evidence to support that claim.
If I disagree with it, then I would offer an argument challenging the strength of that evidence, just how I’ve already done.
Say you went fishing and caught a new type of fish never before seen by humans. How would I provide proof you did not?
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Read up on falsifiability:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
Then read up on Russell’s Teapot:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
I think you’re repeating things you don’t understand yet.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Again, in this scenario you are making a claim. I am not making the claim that ageism does not exist. You are claiming it is the reason for your unemployment. My rebuttal is that the available data surrounding unemployment does not substantiate that.
If I claimed ageism does not exist, it would be a falsifiable statement. You could give any example of ageism. However if I claimed ageism exists, it just isn’t why you can’t find a job, how would we test falsibility? How could I observe the reason why you are unemployed?
I think you are forgetting who originally made a claim?
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Read more, write less.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Says the person who didn’t know the unemployment rate included people looking for jobs…
This you?