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Re: [dinosaur] Prehistoric Road Trip,Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts



How can âI only watched the first episode â so Iâm right  be an 
intelligent response?  This was a serial; count then all or donât make claims 

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> On Jul 20, 2020, at 18:06, aviva <aviva@gmx.us> wrote:
> 
> ïOn 7/20/20 1:56 PM, Liz M wrote:
>> In case anyone is wondering, I counted the people interviewed in
>> episodes 2 and 3 (I canât see episode 1 anymore sadly). I mean why not
>> get some numbers to back up the claims of bigotry and sidelining of men? 
>> 
>> Episode 2: 10 men, 4 women.
>> 
>> Episode 3: 8 men, 7 women.
>> 
>> And there you have it.
> 
> 
> That is using statsitics to lie.  First of all, I only watched the first
> episode, and that was enough.  I'm not counting stage hands here.  There
> was one man given any time in the show at all and only because he was
> married to the person being actually interviewed.  That is enough to not
> waste time watching any other episodes and what you wrote is gross
> misrepresentation.
> 
> 
> Convienently you skipped episode one.
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> I didnât count the presenter obviously because well that doesnât make
>> sense. Thatâs all Iâm going to say on this. One might say that the
>> numbers donât lie.
>> 
> 
> You mean except when the are in the hands of a radical protagonist who
> is doing her best to misrepresent the facts?
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On 20 Jul 2020, at 18:50, Anthony <keenir@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ï
>>> 
>>>>>> it is to show something of process of discovery being made and the
>>>>>> people making it in the places she grew up. Full stop.
>>>> 
>>>>> umm, that is not what the show is about, by your own admission.  
>>> It was
>>>>> about stuffing as many white women as possible into a paleo
>>> documentary.
>>> 
>>>> Just to clarifyâ are you honestly aggrieved that there were too many
>>> paleontologists in a paleontology documentary?
>>>> Iâve heard a lot of weird arguments over the years, but thatâs a new
>>> one.
>>>> âMBH
>>> 
>>> *nods*
>>> Ranks up there with some folks earlier in this conversation thread
>>> being upset that a documentary series about the fossil history of a
>>> few neighboring states, would opt to talk with the paleontologists
>>> who work in those states.
>>> 
>