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07-08-2009, 03:42 PM
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Oh snap.
I didn't know I had any either.
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You had an "oops" baby! As in, "oops, I can't remember having one!"
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07-08-2009, 04:41 PM
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Don't feed madmax.
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Ditto that....haven't any of you noticed, he/she/it goes out of his/her/it's way to try extra hard to be The Asshole?
Put your feedbags away.
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07-08-2009, 08:20 PM
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most of your people are sitting on their stoops with 5th grade educations and no money who wasted their lives
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stats?
http://www.census.gov/population/www...n/cps2008.html
according to these 86 percent of whites and 82 percent of blacks have a high school education.
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07-08-2009, 08:37 PM
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I can't believe you went to all that trouble for that idiot lol
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07-08-2009, 08:39 PM
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LOL. Please don't play statistics wars because that is not how it works. I say this without madmax in mind but because I have to say this to people almost everyday.
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Yes, there are more whites than Blacks who only have high school diplomas or GEDs. Yes, there are more whites than Blacks on public assistance and who are unemployed. Yes, when looking at the general crime indices whites are more represented than Blacks.
HOWEVER, whites (of all ethnicities) comprise over 70% of the population. Blacks are disproportionately (over)represented among the undereducated, unemployed, underemployed, and in general crime rates. This is why Black representation in these social problems is not a matter of mere probability statistics but instead community-specific social ailments.
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07-08-2009, 08:40 PM
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I can't believe you went to all that trouble for that idiot lol
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www.google.com
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07-08-2009, 08:43 PM
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That's more than I would have done for him.
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07-08-2009, 08:44 PM
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HOWEVER, whites (of all ethnicities) comprise over 70% of the population.
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that's why i posted percentages in lieu of raw numbers. that particular instance, whites and blacks are relatively similar in percentage (5% difference).
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07-08-2009, 08:46 PM
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that's why i posted percentages in lieu of raw numbers. that particular instance, whites and blacks are relatively similar in percentage (5% difference).
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They aren't relatively similar with percentages just as they are not with raw numbers.
Is 25% of 100 the same as 25% of 1000?
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07-08-2009, 08:46 PM
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You needed Google to direct you to the U.S. Census?  |
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the census website has a litany of articles and tables. why hunt when you can google? sounds like an exercise in futility. work smarter, not harder.
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07-08-2009, 08:48 PM
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They aren't relatively similar with percentages just as they are not with raw numbers.
Is 25% of 100 the same as 25% of 1000?
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86/82 = 1.048 percent. 5 percent. pretty similar to me. now if you're talking about something other than high school education, you're probably right. but that's not what i'm talking about.
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07-08-2009, 08:49 PM
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the census website has a litany of articles and tables. why hunt when you can google? sounds like an exercise in futility. work smarter, not harder.
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The Census website is easy to navigate.
Geesh...yeah...statistics wars are a bad idea for a number of reasons. LOL.
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07-08-2009, 08:50 PM
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The Census website is easy to navigate.
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it's easier to google.
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07-08-2009, 08:54 PM
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86/82 = 1.048 percent. 5 percent. pretty similar to me. now if you're talking about something other than high school education, you're probably right. but that's not what i'm talking about.
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JFK high school has 61% graduation of an average 3,000 student graduating class.
BFF high school has 58% graduation of an average 200 student graduating class.
How would you substantively interpret that beyond looking at the numbers and the fact that 61 is higher than 58?
Last edited by DrPhil; 07-08-2009 at 08:56 PM.
Reason: mixed up numbers...:)
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07-08-2009, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
JFK high school has 58% graduation of an average 3,000 student graduating class.
BFF high school has 61% graduation of an average 200 student graduating class.
How would you substantively interpret that beyond looking at the numbers and the fact that 61 is higher than 58?
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that BFF and JFK have similar graduation rates
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