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Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
By the way, I was doing a regression analysis the other day and I found a .53 correlation between high violent crime and racial demographics. Yes, the initial analysis showed that the more black people in your city, the more crime.
Now is that causal? That takes more research on things like single parenthood, drop out rates, poverty, drug usage, and so many other independent variables to get a good answer. Not that Timmie would understand.
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And I'll ask again -- what will knowing that statistic do in the real world? What action would you take knowing that statistically more crime is committed by blacks in a given area?