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RatioInvictus 0 points ago +1 / -1

Racial groups don't have "life outcomes," you fucking idiot. They're made up of individuals who have "life outcomes." And those "life outcomes" vary widely within that group. And if you're not going to "bother with" anything beyond the first sentence, then don't write seven. At least you're right about one thing (finally): we can't even begin to have a conversation. Because you're a fucking idiot. Nobody pretended there is no "inequality," and you're incomprehension of that fact, let alone my actual point, is like the ultimate illustration of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

I actually neither "appear to," nor think, that "outliers disprove statistics;" what do the statistics tell us? Differences in the mean. Differences in the tails. Broad overlap. Culture, nurture, character, and fortune are far more determinative than race; you might as well be pimping phrenology.

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MsAnthropic 1 point ago +1 / -0

So differences between racial groups don’t exist? Interesting.🤦🏻‍♀️

What’s the average income for black families vs white families? Moron.

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RatioInvictus 1 point ago +1 / -0

As I noted: you illustrate the Dunning-Kruger effect. I literally spelled out that group averages aren't determinative for individuals. You can verify it yourself in the data. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that you are personally bringing down the average income for white families. Because you're a fucking idiot. And never mind that income is only loosely correlated to intelligence, let alone conduct.

You're a waste of not only my breath but yours - too fucking stupid to comprehend the difference between averages and characteristics, let alone conduct, of individuals.

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MsAnthropic 1 point ago +1 / -0

Why do you keep rebutting SOMETHING I NEVER SAID?? You keep telling me how group averages are not predictive of specific individual outcomes, but I NEVER SAID THEY WERE.

So - do white families have a different average income to black families, or not? You seem confused on that issue.

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RatioInvictus 0 points ago +1 / -1

White families have different incomes from other white families, you fucking moron. Black families have different incomes from other black families. Many white families and black families have the same income as other white and black families. It isn't the skin color/race. I keep telling you the average isn't determinative for individuals because it's a point about the relationship between group averages and individual attributes/characteristics, which you keep missing because you're too fucking stupid to understand it, and worse, don't want to. And never mind that "average income" and "life outcomes" (whatever the fuck that means) don't equal conduct. There's a relationship, for sure, but it's indirect, w/other intervening, independent, and interdependent variables.

Also, quit bitching, like a complete fucking retard, about "SOMETHING I NEVER SAID??" while you simultaneously, hypocritically, and apparently unironically do this:

"So differences between racial groups don't exist? Interesting." "Plus according to you then we don’t even need to because everyone does just as well as everyone else! Congratulations, you just ended inequality - by the simple trick of pretending it doesn’t exist! Hooray!!" "According to you, women are just as tall as men and I’m a disgrace to even suggest otherwise."

See, that's YOU doing the very thing you claim that I'M doing. It's projection, for sure - I just haven't figured out if it's only stupidity or if you're also playing with a partial deck.