I’ve been wondering bout this

  • gun@lemmy.ml
    42·
    3 years ago
    1. Thats not even the right statistic. If you are going to be a racist troll, at least get it right.
    2. That statistics is based on convictions, not actual crime. The numbed will be inflated if a certain group is convicted at a higher rate due to bias.
    3. That’s only in the US so you can’t draw universal conclusions when it varies by country.
    4. Doesn’t control for poverty, education quality, family composition, etc.
  • Salamander@mander.xyz
    1·
    3 years ago

    The numbers are meaningless without context and specificity about what they mean. But what type distribution would you expect for criminality in a population?

  • peppermint@lemmy.ml
    21·
    3 years ago

    Reference? Crime is different. In the US tax evasion can be considered worse than organized murder. In Europe a lot of people commit a crime of copyright violation. In China it is illegal to mine bitcoin. What you are implying is that 87% of all people are so law abiding they don’t think for themselves.

    • 41luckynumber@lemmy.ml
      22·
      3 years ago

      After 40 years of affirmative action Negro IQ is still a standard deviation point below average white IQ.