Posted on 05/28/2015 7:55:39 AM PDT by YourAdHere
A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Maryland College Park’s School of Health found Black mortality rates are much higher in areas with greater levels of racism.
The study gauged the levels of racism across 196 media markets based on the volume of Google searches containing the “n-word” in each area. Researchers qualified that not all the searches were necessarily motivated by racism, but assumed “that areas with a greater concentration of these searches have higher levels of racism overall.”
(Excerpt) Read more at afro.com ...
If it applies to rapper lyrics then I believe it, but this is strictly a “it is whitey’s fault” meme.
An emphatic example of the GIGO principle - Garbage In, Garbage Out!
All too similar to that old statistics class example; 90% of recent deceased have eaten tomatoes or tomato products - ergo tomatoes are deadly!
must be from the Onion.
Actually, I think this is true! The most racist areas are in the black inner cities and that is where the black on black crime rate causes high mortality rates.
article on junk science
http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800
(Warning: Language)
Usages in the context of a term of endearment are interesting.
Is it like rednecks calling each other (and themselves) rednecks (this redneck does, in circumstances where it won’t be misunderstood), or is there a worse side to it?
Funny - I posted [no. 45] before I read the thread - and voila! Good minds think alike.
What does the R-word mean anyhow.
Does it mean to take notice of race for the purpose of ascribing negative characteristics to it?
or get you married to a Kardashian
Is it the chicken or the egg? Does racism cause black crime or is the reverse true?
Inner city, where it is common to use the term as a darkly loaded (no pun intended) term of endearment.
Outside of that context, few should ever have occasion to search for the word unless researching the topic of racial relations and related topics.
Wherever there are blacks, there is racism. Ergo a higher concentration of blacks equals greater levels of racism which equals higher rates of mortality among blacks. QED.
“Researchers Find Black Mortality Rates Higher in Racist Locales”
Yeah, no kidding?
Blacks are some of the most racist people out there and they happen to kill the most blacks.
You didn’t need a study for this.
These half wit writers are really off the deep end. Now they claim its racism if blacks live with blacks and call each other n-——.
“A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Maryland College Park’s School of Health found Black mortality rates are much higher in areas with greater levels of racism.”
Considering that blacks are perhaps the most racist group in the country, then based on this study it would appear they would experience higher mortality rates in their own areas. Of course, the highest mortality rate would likely be whites living in a heavily black area.
This comports exactly with what I would have expected.
Blacks are, on the whole, more racist than Whites. Predominately Black areas are hence more racist (that Blacks, by and large, use the word "Nigger" more frequently than Whites is simply one of many examples of this). Blacks murder other Blacks more than Whites murder Blacks. Black mortality rates are therefore higher in racist (read: predominately Black) locales.
Regards,
“but assumed”
Yep. The paragon of intelligence there....
To be fair, that is NOT this idiot's reasoning.
That is your reasoning, and that reasoning is fallacious.
Your fallacy is called "affirming the consequent," sometimes also "converse error."
What you are arguing is analogous to asserting that areas with a high incidence of Bubonic Plague have high mortalities - and that areas of high mortality must therefore have a high incidence of Bubonic Plague. But there could be other reasons for the high mortality!
The people of Zambia might be the least-racist people on Earth. Their high mortality rate might have entirely different causes.
Regards,
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.