Anytime i bring up crime statistics in an argument with a black person , they always ALWAYS behave as if they don't know what PER CAPITA means .
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There was one of those "enlightened atheist" type guys on this forum a while back (he may be still here idk) and there was this long thread where people were trying to explain to him what per capita meant and he just didn't get it.
And if there's people like that on an alt tech forum that probably skews a little higher than average IQ then I bet a lot of people you're talking to don't get it either.
There was some debate, years ago, with Lauren Chen (IIRC) and some others. One of the topics of discussion was rape statistics. Lauren was arguing that white men in the US aren't more likely to rape than men of other races.
Someone "fact checks" her to state that something like "52% of all rape is committed by white men" -- to cheers of the numerically illiterate audience.
You can't debate these idiots because they don't know what they don't know.
Related to that, I remember some schmuck on the subreddit for my city posting his personal grad school thesis about false arrest rates in response to the typical 52% quip as was common at the time. Black people in the lead at about 40%. I asked if this was representative of the entire population of wrongful arrests or if it was the percentage of arrests of those races that were wrongfully arrested and he said it was based on the total population of wrongfully arrested. Since the sample of that population should conceivably be the same distribution of the total population of those arrested, the fact that black people came in at a smaller percentage than the total of those arrested meant that their arrest was more likely to stick than that of whites who had a higher percentage in the wrongfully arrested bracket. And this was a grad school thesis that was defended successfully, specifically about "racism in the justice system".
bluestorm claimed he was friends with that guy but I think they might be the same person.
I remember that comment chain, it was funny yet sad. The guy just could not grok it.
Are you Heinlein fan?
Yes, very much so.
That thread was crazy. It was the first time I ran into this "me no understand per capita" issue, and I was dead sure the guy was trolling.
It was kinda scary when he eventually admitted that he had misunderstood what per capita meant.