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Originally Posted by tompe
I do not know what holds but some counter examples does not show that the statement "heavily weighted" is false.
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Agreed. Statistics will tell us. Exampliism will not erase the validity of the statistics. But I do not have the statistics
In its absence, I must remain open to the possibility that the poor may not be overrepresented in the army. If they are overrepresented, this does not mean that no rich at all join the army. It would just mean that proportionally less rich join the army. And it also does not exclude the possiblity that everyone's primary reason is the desire to serve the good cause, more than betterment of their own economic position.