@Vgal #146293
Yes, that’s also correct. The vaunted FBI crime numbers are just an artifact of where people live and what their conditions are. I have said it before here, but I think about half of the pseudoscience-abusing racists that get posted here are easy to debunk if you’ve taken a statistics class, or even a statistics unit in a regular math class.
It’s particularly mind-boggling because the racists have recently have been circulating a map, one which even appeared in another recent fundie post, showing the exact effect you described, and they still don’t get it. Black and Hispanic people typically live in more mixed areas, whereas white areas are generally populated by a large white majority. (This is due to the ongoing effects of decades of segregation.) Our guy here didn’t put two and two together as to how that could have skewed the data.