Quote Originally Posted by Zeus
Third, Scorpio, do you really think all that charts prove Yeltsin's guilt? Well, I know you do. Don't you think it's an oversimplification? Of course, he was in power and so he was responsible. But it's just not that simple to blame him in everything.
Strangely, the same argument when applied to Stalin becomes: "have you seen the recently confirmed charts of those arrested and executed when Stalin was in power? Of course he was in power and so he was responsible. So one can simply blame him for everything." Then when one shows some positive charts (education, health care, to name a couple), the same argument becomes "... but it's just not that simple to attribute everything to him".

I perfectly understand that these charts cannot prove anything. It is not because something is the matter with the charts. It is because the posterior argument is highly selective and extremely biased.