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commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours agoWell, your graph could just as easily support my position as it could go against it.
no, it’ can’t. this is an unscientific claim.
Comment on Honey
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours agoWell, your graph could just as easily support my position as it could go against it.
no, it’ can’t. this is an unscientific claim.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
It’s a graph. It doesnt interpret itself. It doesnt really do anything on its own.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
it can only support your position if you could prove your counterfactual, which you cannot.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Well, if you look at the graphs last 3 points, it goes up from the first to the second much higher than it does from the second to the third.
Should I just assume there was a production problem that caused the reduction?
What’s caused that very minor decrease in the rate?
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
i am not an expert on global agricultural markets, but my suspicion is drought, followed by a global (human) pandemic, but i don’t know if those actually caused it even if you could prove they (both) happened. you can also see a significant drop in the 90s correlating with mad cow disease. there it’s easy to say “we destroyed a bunch of cattle instead of slaughtering them” but that’s not exactly reducing suffering. i seem to recall similar stories during the pandemic.
i highly doubt we could draw a causal link between buying beans and either of those dips, though.