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Originally Posted by Vanilla
Most statistics are pulled out of thin air on the internet. You need to do checks and find out what the significant difference is using various methods. The 95 or 99% confidence level can help but you can get false positives so the most important aspect is to have a decent sized sample size (dependent on the type of data you are measuring). Even peer reviewed journal articles can have flaws with their data because not all researchers are well versed in statistics and can take parts of their data instead of the true results. This is sometimes because they want to create certain results so they can get more government funding.
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Exactly, Statistics can be easily manipulated and like you say it's based off of a collection of data and vary depending on how it's computed. At best it is just a really technical estimation.
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Originally Posted by Carpe Mortem
You're not racist, man. Just avoiding other racists. ****, if you're not black and go somewhere surrounded by black folk they're gonna be staring at you. And some of them might hate you for not being one of them. Not a comfortable situation to be in.
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Yeah that's why I don't drive through suburbs because I get stares from white folks and it definitely isn't the silly **** I am wearing on that day that is causing them to stare at me. They are just racist. Stares are hurtful and I know they are just being hateful of me because I'm not one of them.
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