PhD rips Musk a new one.
https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1655614482432012289?t=xxbv1MHKDtyElIiq5_ra9Q&s=19"The original table had percentages and those seem to have been used to reverse engineer the numbers in the bar chart.
...[It] communicates clearly the fact that the rates at which white victims experience violent crime involving black offenders is very similar to the overall percentage of black people in the population (14.6%).
This point is *actively* obscured by turning these percentages into counts in the graph."
"In a truly race-blind society, where most of the people are white and where victims are being selected purely at random, the vast majority of crimes committed by black offenders *should* involve white victims."
"... the vast majority of violent crimes in America involve white victims and white offenders.
If we thought race was a huge factor, and wanted to make the biggest impact on crime numbers, we might want to start there."
"According to Pew Research, the most common age of White Americans in 2018 is 58. For Black Americans, it's 27.
As you can imagine, there's probably not a lot of 58 year olds running around committing violent crime.
"When we compare the white population to the black population without adjustment, we are essentially comparing 58 year olds to 27 year olds.'
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