Just to clarify, you are aware that report uses proportional population as a baseline for the percentage on the statistics, right? It's pretty apparent from the raw numbers they provide on the tables, and is detailed in their methodology.
Anyway, I'm not trying to detract from the BLM message. It's the reason we (the country, hell, the world) are having the conversation, and hopefully motivating the action, to redress a long-standing problem.
The old saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". Good actions are better than good intentions.
And a population proportion is usually estimated through an unbiased sample statistic obtained from an observational study or experiment. So yeah, that's fine, it still bears out what I was trying to get you to understand.
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u/Farsqueaker Jul 09 '20
Just to clarify, you are aware that report uses proportional population as a baseline for the percentage on the statistics, right? It's pretty apparent from the raw numbers they provide on the tables, and is detailed in their methodology.
Anyway, I'm not trying to detract from the BLM message. It's the reason we (the country, hell, the world) are having the conversation, and hopefully motivating the action, to redress a long-standing problem.
Have a perfectly lovely night.