Why do blacks commit more violent crime than whites? Is it because of a culture of violence and anti-authority taking? Is it because of socio-economic factors that are all the White man's fault? Is it all a lie, the result of a racist legal system? is it tghe political atmosphere that encourages many of them to blame their actions of the previous?
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This is what the original post stated. You see anything in there about other groups?
I am NOT a gambling Man, but I am willing to bet my dollars to your doughnuts that you have a lousy interpretation of what is Logic. Whether it is Formal Logic or Informal Logic, it is NOTHING "fuzzy" about either.
I just wish the both were required for all college curriculums. Then a nice majority of people would understand how concise and important they are. Then people will understand how to argue. At least the people who attend college would understand.
riiiiiight... the OP said something about blacks having a higher rate of crime than other groups. your idea of arguing is to say that poster said 'all blacks commit more crime than all whites'. this is a conversational board and you DEMAND writing standards higher than text book quality. you DEMAND that every individual in the group being studied needs to be polled for the statistics to be valid. hmmm... I guess by your standards science would never get anywhere.
If it were by my standards, which I believe it is, it would NOT be a whole heap of bad or incorrect, misleading information floating around out there. This information some people receive and believe to be true and they teach it to others. This false teaching becomes a plague of lies and deception.
Please at least TRY to be reasonable. I come here to learn. I am just trying to get you to look at this with an open mind. But when many people are just wrong, the only thing I learn is many people have been misinformed. If someone's predicate is false in the beginning, then what they were discussing about the subject becomes a redundancy (invalid), until that falsity is corrected.
I have stated this before and I will state this again. Statistics do NOT PROVE ANYTHING one way or another, statistics only show trends based on the strength.
Example:
If you have a container of 3000 eggs, you select first 3 eggs (1 %) to be inspected. You find that those 3 eggs were rotten. By inspecting 1 % of the population of eggs, is it safe to conclude that ALL the (3000) eggs are rotten? (NO, Very weak induction)
The inductively logical conclusion would be, Some of the eggs are rotten. (Very Strong induction)
If you change that number to the first 1500 eggs are found to be rotten, then is it safe to conclude that ALL the (3000) eggs are rotten? (NO, Weak)
The inductively logical conclusion would be, Half the eggs are rotten. (Strong)
To the first 1501 (more than 50 %) were found to be rotten, still the conclusion is NOT ALL. The inductively logical conclusion would be, The majority of the eggs are rotten. (Strong, for that particular sample)
Even if you change that number to the first 2999 (99.9 %) were found to be rotten, then it is still NOT logical to conclude that ALL the (3000) eggs are rotten. Although, that would be very strong induction. That would be PROBABLY true base on NEARLY all the eggs were found to be rotten. Or PROBABLY false based on the POSSIBILITY the last egg MAY be a good egg. Until you inspect that last egg, and that last egg is found to be rotten, then and ONLY then would it be inductively logical to conclude that ALL the eggs are rotten. That is what induction is all about.
Yet still, it will be illogical or prejudice to conclude that ALL the eggs in the world were rotten, based on the data of a sample of 3000 eggs in one container. Let say, arbitrarily, there are one hundred million eggs in the world. If 3000 eggs out of 100,000,000 eggs were found to be rotten, then you have about 3.0 e-3 (0.003) percent of the entire population of eggs found to be rotten. Yes that is less than 1 %. To conclude that ALL or MOST eggs are rotten is inductively illogical, based on this data. See, the exact numbers are most important.
But, if you DO find that ALL, of a certain group, are found to posses a certain quality or characteristic, then it is NOT a statistic anymore. Nor will you be using induction because it then becomes an ABSOLUTE and you will be using deduction.