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Interesting. That’s a testable hypothesis. If after controlling for income there is a difference in sentencing between races, then that’s evidence to reject the
by scarejunba 8y ago
Interesting. That’s a testable hypothesis. If after controlling for income there is a difference in sentencing between races, then that’s evidence to reject the hypothesis that there is no racial disparity.
I believe I once read something that makes me believe that we should indeed believe there is racial disparity but I can’t find it now. Pity.
- mieseratte 8y ago> If after controlling for income there is a difference in sentencing between races, then that’s evidence to reject the hypothesis that there is no racial disparity. Well, logically speaking, you can't draw that conclusion.
- scarejunba 8y agoI implicitly meant for similar severity of crime. Different distribution of crimes is a different discussion. Still testable, and I believe rejectable that race has no impact on sentencing.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoI've always liked this map to show the composition of prisons. https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/ https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/ As an aside: I'm a tall 30-something white male. I'm safe I'm not going to have the cops called on me with "$Action while black", and the assumption is that if I'm somewhere, I'm supposed to be there.