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I think you must have misread the context here. The grandparent's hypothesis was that maybe the results seen here are merely the result of random chance (e.g. w
by icambron 13y ago
I think you must have misread the context here. The grandparent's hypothesis was that maybe the results seen here are merely the result of random chance (e.g. white and black balls being drawn from a bag). The parent was testing that hypothesis by checking the probability of getting those results purely by random chance. The answer was no, but no comment was being made about the source of that non-randomness. So yes, attributing all the differences to racism would be naive and wrongheaded (for most definitions of racism), but who's doing that?
- jacques_chester 13y ago> The grandparent's hypothesis was that maybe the results seen here are merely the result of random chance Not necessarily my hypothesis per se. Rather, it's the default hypothesis that you're supposed to disprove before you go on to propose other hypotheses. My problem is that I remember the existence and requirement to test the null hypothesis, but not the mechanics of how to do that. Luckily we have some people who are across basic statistics and so the conversation is able to move past "it's probably just chance" to speculate about whys.
- icambron 13y agoRight, I didn't mean to imply that you believed the hypothesis, just that you were proposing it. The distinction doesn't matter much for my explanation anyway.
- giardini 13y ago"I think you must have misread the context here. " Yes, you are correct. My apology to all.