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Wikipedia to the rescue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_incarcerated_African-American_males https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_incarcerat
by acqq 11y ago
Wikipedia to the rescue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_incarcerated_African-American_males https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_incarcerated_Afr...
The first graph looks biased (or unclear) in the representation (percent of what?), but the PDF used is here:
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pim09st.pdf http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pim09st.pdf
The total of males in prisons in 2009: 2,096,300
White 693,800
Black 841,000
Hispanic 442,000
- Paul_S 11y agoWhat was in the (now deleted) post you were replying to?
- acqq 11y agoAs much as I'm able to repeat it correctly, the author wrote that he believed that the information about the ethnicity will be unjustly involved in the algorithms. Once being aware of the statistics, there's also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ABRlWybBqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ABRlWybBqM
- Paul_S 11y agoReminds me of the video of a woman beating up a guy on a street to the amusement of the onlookers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3PgH86OyEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3PgH86OyEM