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[–] Hand_of_Node 0 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.

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[–] EndTheFed2 [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The math and numbers are posted, scroll up

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[–] Hand_of_Node 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Ah, thank you.

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[–] SmokeyMeadow 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

We've sure got a lot of catching up to do.

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[–] con77 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

at 1/8 the population

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[–] analfaveto 1 point 0 points (+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.

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[–] 13441635? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Sounds like we need to step up our game to level the playing field

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[–] Feral_Human 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Only 12?

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[–] EndTheFed2 [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

12 is the "official number".

Keep in mind lots of these "white" murders on blacks are actually done by latinos or muslims. The real number is probably closer to 15-20x

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[–] 1hump4treefidy 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Maybe we should start turning that around.

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[–] BlackOwl 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Please post sources for these claims, otherwise they're meaningless.

If this is true, the source would be very valuable.

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[–] EndTheFed2 [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Scroll up

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[–] whipcracker 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

17x's is what i came up with awhile back.

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