AI could be used to better understand these associations (e.g. why is there a correlation between Asians and academic performance) and maybe help social leverage advantages more equitably.
Consider one of the (largely liberal) discourses rising in the past few years that many vital social metrics and trends indicate men/boys are screwed and women/girls are outcompeting them and thriving much better in present era.
Per the FBI: "White individuals were arrested more often for violent crimes than individuals of any other race and accounted for 59.1 percent of those arrests."
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
[0] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/RHI125221
> I think it's fair to point out that men commit most violent crimes. That's not good/normal/expected it's just a fact.
> Again, replace “men” with “African Americans” and you also have a statistically true statement (in America at least) that would be considered taboo.
You raise some great points, but in the context of the discussion I don't see how any of the comments represent a failure of mathematical, verbal, and philosophical understanding.
So it is true and you're distorting the table.
South Asian vs East asian is another group that often gets lumped together in demographic statistics as 'Asian'. Despite significant differences in geography/race/culture/etc.
Regardless, I'd also be curious to hear the real rational for the Latino one
Or does it only mean anglosaxon heritage? If so, why?
In any case, the picture you're suggesting is itself distorted given that other correlating factors such as social class, are ignored.
>the picture you're suggesting is itself distorted given that other correlating factors such as social class, are ignored.
The picture I'm suggesting is that which the data shows, and you seem to be making some other leap to say something that I have not said.
In any case, the picture the data suggests is incomplete (because it is missing a crucial data point: social class), therefore the picture you're suggesting is also incomplete.
Arrest statistics are also self-reported by police, both on an individual officer and department-to-FBI level, with no accountability for the accuracy or completeness thereof that I'm aware of.
Violent crimes also account for only a portion of the economic damage crime-in-general deals to society, if we want to get utilitarian. Wage theft dwarfs all types of robbery and burglary, and that's only one type of white-collar theft (perpetrated, in the US, overwhelmingly by white people).
Thank you for correcting this disinformation. It's something that gets trotted out regularly without acknowledgement of how ridiculously imperfect our law enforcement and justice systems are.
However you aren't allowed to say that for one group, but you are allowed for the other. So this has nothing to do about statistical accuracy, its just political pressure from one side.
You can't just substitute in random groups for another. In order to make a statement you need to know what you're talking about. And it seems like the HN crowd that so desperately wants to say blacks are more violent than whites, these people have no clue what they're talking about. If you go and look at history you'll quickly see how that statement is just ill-formed.
A statement of empirical observation cannot be "ill-formed" unless you have appointed yourself ultimate arbiter over why a person might care.
Also, your implied statement of "women, on average, have no traits that are unhelpful to the flourishing of human civilization", strikes me as terribly naive.
Please point to where I said this.
>"women, on average, have no traits that are unhelpful to the flourishing of human civilization"
(Once you adjust for education level this disappears)