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Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)
10. Um, I'm using *your* statistics!
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 03:10 AM
Sep 2013

If 86% of the population are white (including Latino), and 85% of white murder victims are killed by white people, it's simple maths that a randomly-selected white person and a randomly-selected black person are about equally likely to kill me! If you'd like to call your own statistics BS, fair enough; if not, it's a simple mathematical conclusion with nothing subjective about it at all!


I'm not sure why you think that pointing out that only in 28% of murders were by strangers refutes my claim that most murders are by acquaintances...


Yes, obviously men commit more murders than women; Alice and Bob were meant to be placeholder names. Read them as "person A" and "person B" if you prefer.
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