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What is per-capita? This Black pastor doesn't understand per-capita and argues Whites commit more violent crimes than Blacks. (twitter.com)
posted 3 years ago by onetruephilosoraptor 3 years ago by onetruephilosoraptor +41 / -0
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– Kienan 15 points 3 years ago +15 / -0

but nooooooo. you wanna go full retard and say black people commit the majority of crimes...

Who said that?

which is why you have to use the per capita angle instead of the overall stats!

Per capita does nothing to change "majority." As I've said, you're either trolling, or honestly don't even know what per capita means. Hilarious.

women kill themselves more than men, oh! you say it's actually men! who commit more! suicides? well that can't be! because per capita, more women in these areas, kill themselves more than men! i won't use the overall data, so i'll just selectively use the data i complied.

Once again, that's not what per capita means, and I'd love a definition from you.

Also, go ahead and flesh out your pretend example, and provide an actual example where you could say women kill themselves more than men, "per capita" or otherwise.

You absolute walnut.

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– Sneak_King 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

While you're introspecting, how would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?

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– Kienan 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Essentially, yes. Per capita literally means 'per head,' aka 'per person.'

So, basically, for this specific example, total is 6.8 million, whites are 4.7m, blacks are 1.8m. Blacks are committing crimes at roughly twice their 'per capita' representation. 1.8 is ~25% of 6.8, blacks are only ~13% (roughly half 25%) of the population. Blacks are committing twice as much crime on average as they should be. That's why 'per capita' is important.

Whites are around 60% of the population, blacks are around 13%. Blacks commit more murder (raw numbers), despite there being almost five times as many whites as blacks. Whites by population are underrepresented in crime, blacks are massively overrepresented in crime. Another example of why per capita is important. If you just look at the numbers, it looks fairly close. But taking population into account, you're looking at that 5X+ number, and it gets pretty crazy.

And, not to rub salt in the wound, but I am curious...what did you think per capita meant?

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– -Fender- 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

Don't forget that the statistics in the OP are also just plain wrong, since it's clear that multiple different groups were combined to get those numbers for "White". Probably a large number of them were hispanics, but were included there because it was convenient.

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– Kienan 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Yup, I mentioned that elsewhere, but wanted to keep it simple for this one. But, yeah, "white" doesn't mean what you're generally going to think "white" should logically mean. "White" crime stats are a jumble of a bunch of different things to the point of making it meaningless.

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