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Old 02-27-2016, 05:30 AM  
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Originally Posted by plaster View Post
So let's try and understand this statistic... Let's just say for shits and giggles there is any hint of truth to the statistics shown in that image.

It's titled:

USA Crime Statistics - 2015 (no link to original)

- That infers any crime as recognized by the US and your inference is it is each race... ok, let's role with it.

1) BLACKS killed by whites.... 2%
That would infer that out of all the crimes committed by whites, 2% of them were killing blacks... that's false.

2) BLACKS killed by police.... 1%
That would infer that out of all the crimes committed by police, 1% of them were killing blacks... that could be true

3) WHITES killed by police... 3%
That would infer that out of all the crimes committed by police, 3% of them were killing whites... likely very false

4) WHITES killed by whites... 16%
That would infer that out of all the crimes committed by whites, 16% of them were killing whites... that's false

5) WHITES killed by blacks... 81%
That would infer that out of all the crimes committed by blacks, 81% of them were killing whites... that's false

6) BLACKS killed by blacks... 97%...
paaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaa aaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeee

The image is just complete and total nonsense with absolutely no meaning or application to any real life stat. It's just completely bogus. And 81 and 97 is well over 100 last I checked.
your logic is mind boggling

you're also using 'infer' wrong, the statistics 'imply' or suggest something, somebody who reads the statistics infers what he thinks the statistics suggest.

but the two words have been used wrong by so many people for so long that they've become synonyms and acceptable to most people other than teachers or editors

not to be a grammar nazi tho
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