BS file claim#16: more participants in PNG playing RL than..

[NSWAFL]

WHAT??

PNG Population: 6,187,591
Land mass: 178,703 sq miles

Nauru Population: 9,322
Land mass: 8.1 sq miles

How can one possible make a comparison here and be relevant? Seriously! Anyway, RL has a much longer laundry list of lying that AFL has ever had. We only have to see how many times we've caught the RL out, and the number of times AFL has been caught out can be counted on one hand.

[Xman]

WHAT??

PNG Population: 6,187,591
Land mass: 178,703 sq miles

Nauru Population: 9,322
Land mass: 8.1 sq miles

How can one possible make a comparison here and be relevant? Seriously! Anyway, RL has a much longer laundry list of lying that AFL has ever had. We only have to see how many times we've caught the RL out, and the number of times AFL has been caught out can be counted on one hand.

The comparison is not the size but the level of development, infrastructure, poverty etc....

Once we start discounting code officials without proof we are heading down a very slippery slope.

[cos789]

Nauru is a good example .

No it's not.
Nauru is a close knit island community.
85% of PNG live in rural poverty and rugged isolation.

I'm not sure how we can insist others believe every comment from the AFL if we then refuse to believe comments from RL officials.

He gave a definition of "participants" that's different to what we use.

There was no proof to the contrary just a plea to consider it as impossible.

Yes it's impossible. It'd require almost every adult male to be a participant
when we know from parafeel's own figures they have only 10k registered players,
still a shortfall of 1 million participants.

This IMO this not enough because often developing countries do not follow the same behavioral trends as developed countries, because as you rightly said, they have less to do.

Why are you introducing this "logic" ? feeling guilty perhaps?

Behavoural trends.
When kids stopped being forced to do something - they usually do stop.
The older kids get the less they play sport. (Drastically in Western societies)
You suggest they have less to do.
I suggest that the 85% of PNG living in poverty would be trying to scratch out a living not playing games.

[cos789]

The crux of this matter is what a rl "official" said. Was his name "O'Neil" by any chance ?