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Probably, if you make the comparison the authors make, you get the numbers they got. If you compare five different groups instead of the two groups they used, t
by lazyasciiart 3y ago
Probably, if you make the comparison the authors make, you get the numbers they got. If you compare five different groups instead of the two groups they used, then what a shock, the order of the five doesn’t match the order of the original 2.
Why would the commenter have made the comparison they do, if they wanted to consider the matter in good faith?
- nathan_compton 3y agoBecause the article is specifically about disparities between black and white americans, not between white and "all non-white" americans.
- lazyasciiart 3y agoI’m not sure how that motivates someone to say “look, Asians live longer” and act like they have somehow caught the authors in a lie?
- nathan_compton 3y agoI think we agree here and I misunderstood your original comment. I think the comment listing life expcetancies for various ethnic groups is disingenuous.
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- rayiner 3y agoExcept in this case adding the other races as additional data points changes how you view the black-white comparison. For example, native Americans live almost as long as whites, but are as poor as blacks. And Hispanics are closer to blacks than whites in income, but live much longer than whites.