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Seems hard to make an argument either for or against racial disparities in police shootings then, if the data is unreliable. In which case the answer is to not
by beaner 6y ago
Seems hard to make an argument either for or against racial disparities in police shootings then, if the data is unreliable. In which case the answer is to not make assumptions, but collect better data.
A lot of people seem to take the approach of: the data's good if it says what I want; if it doesn't, it's probably wrong.
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- roywiggins 6y agoHard doesn't mean impossible. There's been a lot of good reporting on this in the last half-decade. But it's required sustained effort from journalists, and insofar as statistics are getting better, it's not because the US has become more first-worldier than it was.
- beaner 6y agoAny argument becomes easier if you're willing to dismiss data to base it on.