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Originally Posted by BillyBob
Yet blacks commit nearly 6 times more murders in the US than whites [per capita].
That's a disturbing statistic!  |
It's disturbing, but it's mostly a commentary on how vanishingly low both rates are.
It's like lottery tickets.
A single Powerball ticket gives you a 1 in 146 million chance of winning the jackpot.
Buy a second ticket, and your chance of winning doubles! But it's still only 2 in 146 million.
With very small numbers, it's easy to get impressive percentage differences that aren't actually meaningful in real life.
So mostly, we should be grateful that the murder rate is so low for everyone, including blacks.