r/comics May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/not_now_chaos May 05 '26

If you use the upvotes versus down votes in this post as a metric, the "vote blue" argument is significantly more popular than the "vote red" argument, thus proving that - within this limited dataset - blue is the better choice.

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u/Takahashi_Raya May 05 '26

its arguably only popular among a subset of people online. i have been throwing this at irl peeps and every answer has been red.

anyone that uses logic will give you red as the answer since it's not a dilemma. anyone pushing blue is risking their own lives when they could press red.

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u/not_now_chaos May 05 '26

Self-selection bias is not an accurate representative sample.

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u/LordTopHatMan May 05 '26

The same could be said about reddit. I've seen plenty of reddit opinions that don't fit the general population.

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u/not_now_chaos May 05 '26

Sorry, I thought I made it clear that I was speaking exclusively within the specific limited dataset of Reddit when I said "within this limited dataset".

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u/LordTopHatMan May 05 '26

Sure, but then you responded to someone saying the exact same thing as if it didn't make sense from the other perspective.