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> This study seems unconvincing. We see that black drivers are pulled over more during the day - why does that necessarily mean that it’s due to their race? Be
by ceejayoz 8mo ago
> This study seems unconvincing. We see that black drivers are pulled over more during the day - why does that necessarily mean that it’s due to their race?
Because on the day time shifted an hour artificially due to daylight savings, the racial discrepancy moved by an hour, even though the sun physically didn't.
(The alternative explanation is that black people all decide collectively to drive worse/better when daylight savings changes twice a year. Which seems... unlikely.)
It's an extremely clever approach. I'd encourage you to at least skim the article rather than asking questions it readily answers.
- tt24 8mo agoNeither your comment nor the article answers my question. There’s no evidence here that the discrepancy is due to race.
- ceejayoz 8mo agoSure. The cops just mysteriously act differently across tens of thousands of stops across the country when the sun goes down and they can't see the car's occupants, in a way verfiably tied to the sun and not the clock time. I do appreciate the proof you're not discussing in good faith.
- tt24 8mo agoWhy does it have to be due to the skin color of the car’s occupants? You know that correlation doesn’t necessarily imply causation right? Statistics are a tricky thing to get right