[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

It was implied that those observations of those individuals either suggested that LT's proposed correlation between education level and religiosity was incorrect (i.e. that his observations proved that such people were in fact not religious) which would be a generalisation.

The other possibility, I suppose, was that he incorrectly believed LT to be saying that ALL uneducated people are religious, and that his observations of uneducated, non-religious people then disproved that... which wouldn't be a generalisation, simply incorrect, because LT at no point said that all uneducated people are religious.

I stand by my initial assessment, though. LT proposed the correlation, Marsh said (to paraphrase) "Hmm that's strange, because I know a few such people and they aren't religious, so that would suggest such a correlation is not true". Generalisation based on personal anecdote.

Then kazanne said "Yarrrr they're all filthy godless feral scumbags (with hearts of gold)".

That's my exact memory of this thread.

..that's cool TS but it still doesn't change what was said, only that you're standing by your interpretations...