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Originally Posted by jfrog
It's not the stat, it's the explanation of what that stat means. Stats don't lie... but people lie or are often mistaken about what stats mean. In fact, gathering stats is easy, interpreting what they mean is rather hard. For example: in the NFL winning teams have more rushing yards than losing ones. The most obvious interpretation of this stat is that accumulating rushing yards causes winning. However, another equally valid interpretation is that winning causes the accumulation of rushing yards.
So while more black women abort babies than white women this doesn't show that black women are targeted any more than white women are. However, that is one possibility. Another possibility is that black women respond more to the targeting being done to them than white women. But we can't really stop there because stopping there doesn't answer the question of why black women respond more to abortion than white women. Is there something inherently pro having abortion in black women or is there some social, economic or other stimulus that causes this trend?
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Agreed completely. That is why I searched through the thread to see what she was offended by. Offended by assumptions maybe? Offended by people taking raw numbers without considering that there or other circumstances involved even.
But she said...
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I am offended but the fact that you have turned abortion into this thing that black are receiving abortions at highter rates than any other races
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According to the stats given. This is true.
As you have said... raw facts aren't the whole story. There is more to it than just numbers. That is why I was intrigued about what she might find offensive and, per her post, it appears to be the raw data that offends her.
I might be misconstruing her post as the "but" in her sentence seems to be a typo or lack of punctuation makes it unclear as to what is exactly being said. It's hard to tell.
But my initial reading of the post leads one to believe she is upset at the raw data and I find that a little amazing.
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