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JBH
12:47 AM
@Nosajimiki I didn't miss your point. There's no difference when a larger group is used. Little girls in Britain don't make the same choices as those in America, or Russia, or China. This Stack has consistently closed questions that ask for undefined samples because you can't actually make the assumptions you're trying to make. There is no statistically true objective choice because you're considering all the little girls on the planet. Anyone who knows anything about statistics would
tell you that large, unfocused sample sizes make everything worse because you're ignoring the cultures represented by the sample. But that doesn't change anything at all about the rules on this Stack. Questions about choices regardless of the sample size are prohibited. If you don't like that, bring it up in meta and see if the rule can be changed.
 
 
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2:33 PM
@JBH "But that doesn't change anything at all about the rules on this Stack. Questions about choices regardless of the sample size are prohibited." <- that is not what the rules says. It says "individuals or organizations", not "individuals or multiple individuals". An organization by definition still only has one choice to make, either a law passes or it does not whether one person decides or 100 senators vote on it, this one outcome becomes a concrete plot point.
That is what makes an organization functionally a character. "Little girls in Britain don't make the same choices as those in America, or Russia, or China" <- this is what makes it world building. Little girls in America for example represent a culture. That means that any answer about what little girls in America do represent the culture of America and not any individual choices or plot points. It is a plot point when little Susan makes a specific choice.
"large, unfocused sample sizes make everything worse because you're ignoring the cultures represented by the sample" <- This can make the question harder to answer, but there is no rule against asking hard questions. Universalist psychology is founded on the principle that there are commonalities between peoples of all cultures (aka: human nature).
While there is some overlap where Universalists and Culturalists don't agree, there is enough information out there to come up with a strongly informed guess.
 

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