Sunday, August 7, 2011

Can statistics be racist? or lies?

If you ever take a statistics course you will understand how it is very VERY easy for statistics to be wrong even if you are a statistician. As for the details in your question. It could be that all of the data is correct but what people may have a problem with is kind of what you said. It absolutely doesnt say blacks are bad people or anything like that but it can be interpreted that way by many people since manhy people blindly trust stats and dont realize that it doenst imply a cause or any hidden variables. it simply shows a correlation.

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