[sangnoir]

> if men are statistically more likely to be programmers, or black people are more likely to commit crimes (STATISTICALLY),

I think you meant black people are more likely to be convicted of crime. The problems with crime 'statistics' is that on the surface, it all seems coldly scientific, yet they are generated and derived via very biased, very human, very unscientific processes - there is a lot of bad data. The ACLU did research that showed that there is no statistically significant difference in the possession of weed between white and black people, yet more black people are convicted[1] for possession.

Here's a mind experiment: after watching this YouTube video[2], how skewed do you think the statistics for white female criminals (bike thieves) vs black criminals would be?

1. https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/aclu-thewaronmarijuana-rel...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7i60GuNRg

[loop2]

If that's the case, there must be a hell of a lot of unconvicted white murderers to make up for the 7:1 disproportion.

[bonobo3000]

Yeah, i don't really know enough to argue that. You're probably right about the convictions.

I just think we need to be able to TALK about these issues, so that when a real expert looks at those statistics they can get to the truth of the matter, and say that truth whether it is or isn't politically correct.