O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[ramAnag]

OK I will try one more time

In my birds parody, I am seeking to understand the behaviour of the male blackbirds

You are discussing the behaviour of the goldfinches

Your points relating to the behaviour of your goldfinches may be perfectly valid in evaluating goldfinch behaviour, but they are utterly irrelevant to the consideration of the behaviour of the blackbirds: even if those behaviours are exacty the same. Unless in some way you feel that goldfinch behaviour is influenced by blackbird behaviour or vica versa, which I dont think has been raised as a consideration.

Yu are in effect seeking to exonerate the blackbirds from not drinking by saying that lots of goldfinches dont drink either, based on your observations (which differ to my observations).

If this still doesnt work for you, then I am afraid I cannot explain it, and suggest that you read a basic text on set theory and logic.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/04709058...&tag=uuid07-21

should help and, ironically, it has some birds on the front

Lol...I saw the words ‘Mathematical’ and ‘Theory’ and broke into a sweat.

Beyond that we may be nearly there.

Of course I don’t think ‘that goldfinch behaviour is influenced by blackbird behaviour or v/v’, that’s always been part of my point, but in our hypotheses the Blackbirds have, quite independently, behaved the same way as the Goldfinches.

To go back to last weekend, the same is true of the black passengers on your train as it is of the white supporters in the club shop. There was an almost complete lack of compliance regarding the wearing of masks by both groups, hence my conclusions...1) There was little, if anything, to choose between the behaviour of the black people you observed and the white people I observed...and, partly because of this...
2) It is unwise to reach conclusions based on such small anecdotal samples, which is all I have ever suggested.

The fact that ‘my’ Goldfinches and white football supporters are in Derbyshire while ‘your’ black passengers and Blackbirds are in Surrey matters not one jot.
Both types of birds were in a garden where food was provided and both sets of people were in environments where the distinction between being indoors and outdoors is a little vague at a time when the restrictions were, rightly or wrongly, about to be lifted.
Ultimately though...they behaved the same and I don’t need a mathematical/business qualification to recognise that fact.