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> At the same time, I think there are demographics in this country that are more likely to abuse the system or display behavior that make one a little more suspicious of them in principle.

i want to gently point out, without implying intention, that this is, in it's self, a racist belief




It's also true.

Split any number of people into any arbitrary groups and some of those groups will be higher than average and other lower than average.

This has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with randomness.


> Split any number of people into any arbitrary groups and some of those groups will be higher than average and other lower than average.

Wait, what? Surely they should all be (sans a bit of noise) the same? (Split 1000 random numbers into two groups. The sums should be almost equal).


no if you take big enough group it will average out.

But random numbers can and do have "random distribution" which means some high some low, most somewhere in between.

But that only works with large enough sample. With small sample size, randomness can look like not random.


How do you know they demographics they are talking about are defined by race?




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