[–] analfaveto 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
It's more like one fifth of the white population, but that still makes the stat misleading. If a black person kills people at random, he's going to kill 5 times more whites than blacks. If a white person kills people at random, he's also going to kill 5 times more whites than blacks. So if both whites and blacks killed people of both colours at the same rate, the black person would still kill 5 times more whites than the white person kills blacks. Assuming the headline is correct, blacks kill 2.4 times more whites than they should, which sounds kind of low considering how enthusiastic blacks are about crime. The way I interpret this stat is blacks kill a lot, but they probably kill other blacks a lot more often than they kill whites, at least when adjusting for population proportions.
[–] Hand_of_Node 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Would be helpful to show the math on this one. Because you know what they say about statistics.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments.
Not being able to say how one arrived at this number makes it pretty unusable out in the wild.
[–] EndTheFed2 [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
The math and numbers are posted, scroll up
[–] 1hump4treefidy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Maybe we should start turning that around.
[–] whipcracker 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
17x's is what i came up with awhile back.
[–] SmokeyMeadow 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
We've sure got a lot of catching up to do.