[lazyasciiart]

Probably, if you make the comparison the authors make, you get the numbers they got. If you compare five different groups instead of the two groups they used, then what a shock, the order of the five doesn’t match the order of the original 2.

Why would the commenter have made the comparison they do, if they wanted to consider the matter in good faith?

[nathan_compton]

Because the article is specifically about disparities between black and white americans, not between white and "all non-white" americans.

[lazyasciiart]

I’m not sure how that motivates someone to say “look, Asians live longer” and act like they have somehow caught the authors in a lie?

[nathan_compton]

I think we agree here and I misunderstood your original comment. I think the comment listing life expcetancies for various ethnic groups is disingenuous.

[rayiner]

Except in this case adding the other races as additional data points changes how you view the black-white comparison. For example, native Americans live almost as long as whites, but are as poor as blacks. And Hispanics are closer to blacks than whites in income, but live much longer than whites.