The larger question is: do we have a right to protect ourselves using statistical analysis?
1. We choose to drive larger cars.
2. We quit smoking.
3. We exercise.
4. We live in safe neighborhoods.
All the above rely on statistical analysis to reenforce our decision.
Add these:
1. We cross the street to avoid loiterers.
2. We stay on the freeway during certain stretches through Compton-Newark-North Miami-South Chicago.
3. We avoid regional airlines.
Now we have a class of persons, statistically more likely to commit suicide by 5-6 times other persons. These persons sometimes control the safety of many others.
We are not allowed to discuss this. It must be censored.
“The larger question is: do we have a right to protect ourselves using statistical analysis?
1. We choose to drive larger cars.
2. We quit smoking.
3. We exercise.
4. We live in safe neighborhoods.”
Even before any scientific statistical analysis, people (and in fact, higher order animals) did this. It was called “common sense”. This behavior is now in some cases, of course, illegal.