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Dickens wrote:One guy claims to get a 90% result using Edenic Phrenology
http://excavatingeden.com/2012/09/09/ap ... -not-quiz/
Dickens wrote:Sovereign wrote:No more like socioeconomic status. Turn of the century it was the Irish.
Even if the crime rates are a result of a socioeconomic status, this does not refute the argument that a method based on what you call bigotry and prejudice yields a better than random results. Seven times better in my example.
Rumraket wrote:Yeah I got 50%, exactly as expected from random chance. I don't believe it's possible to "tell a criminal just by the way they look".
Sovereign wrote:Dickens wrote:Sovereign wrote:No more like socioeconomic status. Turn of the century it was the Irish.
Even if the crime rates are a result of a socioeconomic status, this does not refute the argument that a method based on what you call bigotry and prejudice yields a better than random results. Seven times better in my example.
Next, what is the similarity with the Irish? Did they at the turn of the century commit 7-8 times more murders per capita than the WASPs?
Even those stats are being called into question lately. What is your argument exactly?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones ... _8398.html
http://www.civilrights.org/publications ... ncing.html
https://lib.law.washington.edu/content/guides/racecrim
lobawad wrote:I wonder if anyone is so amazingly stupid as to take this kind of thing seriously.
jamest wrote:
Don't talk bollocks. Next thing you'll be telling us is that criticism of Obama's policies is racism.
Spearthrower wrote:I was going to say that this is guff, then I got 100% right on the first try!
But I still think it's guff!
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