re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter

This reminds me of a similar assertion by my RW brother years ago: he claimed the life expectancy of whites was comparable to other countries. I thought that was an outrageous comparison; it should be based on life expectancy of all residents and there we were behind many other nations; and I suspect it wasn’t even true anyway.

It’s the worst kind of cherrypicking - comparing a subset of Group A to ALL of Group B, even though they contain the same subsets. You can compare all of Group A to all of Group B. You can compare the subsets of Group A to all of Group A, or to each other. You can compare the same subset in both Groups to each other. But you can’t meaningfully compare a subset of one Group to the whole of another if they contain the same subsets.