>>31
Your argument became erroneous from this point onwards
Did it ever occur to you I might be poking fun at flaky use of statistics? Was the title "
Fun with statistics" a little too subtle for you there?
your results say nothing about the probability of a white being a violent criminal
Nor did OP, whom I was quoting. Hence the "have to assume" remark.
or who has not finnished high school
One who has finished high school will usually know how to spell. (OK, that's nitpicking.)
Though I guess they are you liberal's target audience.
So I'm a liberal just cos I turn flaky statistics on its head to show how absurd it gets? That would mean you have to be liberal to take dodgy statistics with a pinch of salt. What does that say about conservatives (et al)?
Anyway, I'm not into preaching for the choir. I prefer to cause ppl to educate themselves, in this case by showing how absurd statistics can get if you twist the argument enough and your audience's brain is turned off.
Insulting and patronisation are bad yes, but to mix these 2 falses with the truth of loyal decent criticism only shows the underlying problems with African Americans.
It shows underlying problems with far more than just Blacks. They're just easiest to pick on cos they've got fewer (fancy) lawyers.
the black community needs to know what its problems are and they should begin by rejecting bullshit like this
I think the main problem is a bit too universal; youngsters get a list of less than a half dozen permissabe interests, and non-conformers get clowned on. Where I come from it's going straight from high school to the local factory (leaving you phuxx0rd the day your factory shuts down, cos that was all you knew how to do), in Black communities it's basketball (bling), rap (more bling) and drugrunning (even more bling).
Everywhere this fucked-up excuse for thinking takes hold, the result is the same: stagnation. What passes for culture gets stuck in one place and never moves on. Nor does the population, since they've effectively been told all their lives to not think, and to never learn anything new. And it doesn't get better when all the nation around them can think to do, is to pick on them for just doing what they were told.
If you really want to help, you'll want to look at where that kind of attitude comes from, and what's keeping it alive. You'll want to replace it with something more productive (like that's hard). Gawking at useless chunks of statistics is just perpetuating the problem, aside from confusing cause and effect, which is (let's be generous here) less than intelligent.