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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
It works when you consider anyone from any descent of white or asian skin is all lumped into the same mix.

That's got nothing to do with it. You were citing "white" vs. black statistics in the first place, so the "white" category is whatever it is, and represents some population that outnumbers blacks 8 to 1. You noted that b/w ( black perp, "white" victim ) assaults occurred with 8 times ( 15:2 ) the frequency as w/b, and then said that the "per capita ration" was 64 to 1 because "whites" outnumber blacks 8 to 1. This is false reasoning. As I pointed out, b/w and w/b assaults would be equal in number if "race" were uncorrelated with the likelihood of being a perp or a victim.

Furthermore, the comparison of b/w with w/b actually involves a complex combination of factors. Your figure of 64 to 1 is completely meaningless.

92 posted on 04/23/2003 8:20:07 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew
The 1995 FBI Uniform Crime Reports is being cited .....Guess i should have told you this too. sorry.

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Attention: Content Manager, FBI Home Page
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 7972
Washington, DC 20535
(202) 324-3000

Just write or call they will send you the stats .

93 posted on 04/23/2003 8:43:29 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (***If you decide not to choose you still have made a choice***)
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To: dr_lew
[ To ATOMIC_PUNK ] Furthermore, the comparison of b/w with w/b actually involves a complex combination of factors. Your figure of 64 to 1 is completely meaningless.

I should add that the comparison you ought to make is between w/w and b/w, which is 55:15 or 11:3, meaning 11 white victims are attacked by whites for every 3 white victims that are attacked by blacks. In this case, since the target population is constant, it's proper to correct for the greater number of potential white attackers and ( assuming attackers are men and victims are women ) say that a black man is 24/11 = 2.2 times as likely than a white man to attack a white woman. More than twice as likely! Quite shocking, but a far cry from 64.

94 posted on 04/24/2003 8:06:48 AM PDT by dr_lew
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