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Originally Posted by Gozer
I did not interpret the stat (for what it's worth), and I do confess to being familiar with the conclusion only. Though I must admit I am discouraged that you would discount the entire thread with such little effort - and make the baffling conclusion that I extrapolated gun ownership into phony crime statistics.
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I didn't say
you interpreted the stats. I said that it had
been interpreted before being reported here. And it was interpreted with an agenda.
For example:
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Originally Posted by The Actual Study
The likelihood of being stopped by police in 2002 did not differ significantly among white (8.7%), black (9.1%), and Hispanic (8.6%) drivers.
Police were more likely to search a vehicle driven by a black (7.1%) driver than by a white (2.9%) driver.
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So, if you were summarizing that objectively, you'd say "Police aren't significantly more likely to stop a black driver than a white driver, but they're 2.4x more likely to search the vehicle."
But instead:
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Originally Posted by Gozer
Fact: Black and Latino men are three times more likely than white men to be stopped by the police and have their cars searched.
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See, that's
not a fact. That's a rounded up number. By somebody who's bad at math.
Anyway - I also never claimed that the police/justice system isn't racist, though I see plenty of people were happy to imply that. On the contrary, I don't know how anyone could look at the actual numbers and claim otherwise. I'd just rather see the numbers quoted from the study.
I didn't like Sicko but that doesn't mean the States didn't have a problem with health care.