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Statistically Speaking

Counting this and that, statisticians present us with myriads of numbers to be shaped and twisted like clown made balloon animals. Godless, at Gene Expression, posts a few to consider that more than likely would not be published in the New Yorker.

1. “SAT scores for whites coming from families making less than $20000 per year: 983 [1]
2. SAT scores for blacks coming from families making more than $70000 per year: 956
3. Percentage of violent criminals in New York City who are named by their victims as either black or Hispanic: 89.2 [2]
4. 43% of homosexual men in “Shoreland” in Chicago have had at least this many partners: 60
5. Transfer payment amount per native-born household due to immigration in California, in dollars: 1178 [3]
6. Fraction of black males who will likely be incarcerated at some point in their life: 1/3
7. Fraction of white males who will likely be incarcerated at some point in their life: 1/17
8. Percentage of the homeless who are mentally ill/alcoholics/drug addicted: 25/50/33
9. Number of people killed, worldwide, by Nazis: 21 million
10. Number of people killed, worldwide, by Communists: more than 110 million [4]
11. Percentage of France’s electrical power that comes from nuclear energy: 76 [5]
12. Number of people killed in nuclear power accidents in France: 0"

The post is titled “Numbers you’ll never see..."

Godless supplies links to the supporting documentation in the post.

Posted by on 06/07 at 04:46 AM