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Sample size: 2. Nice neighborhoods were powered down. Poor neighborhoods were powered down. Maybe some had essential infrastructure. Maybe they didn't. There's
by moate 5y ago
Sample size: 2.
Nice neighborhoods were powered down. Poor neighborhoods were powered down. Maybe some had essential infrastructure. Maybe they didn't. There's a possibility that poor or minority majority neighborhoods were unfairly targeted. The inverse is also possible.
The bottom line is, you and I both have NO idea who was affected, how, or how that decision was made. So stop trying to pretend racism or inequality can't exist. There literally is a grand mystery here because the companies responsible won't inform anyone.
And yes, I fully accept that while it can exist that doesn't mean that it does exist in this situation but you have to also accept that with incomplete data you can't prove it doesn't.
- pluto7777 5y agoJust because I can't know every variable doesn't mean I'm going to dismiss what I've seen. Inner cities also have some of the best hospitals and infrastructure in the state while containing the most poor. It's just nonsense what you're preaching.
- moate 5y agoI mean the whole idea that "I don't know every variable, but I'm going to jump to a singular conclusion while pointing out that a hypothesis I disagree with is nonsense" seems like a bad take to me but I'm a fan of science.