Re:As Japan's population shrinks, bears and boars roam among...
by JoeAltmaier on Sunday July 10, 2016 @04:02PM
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Isn't that exactly what you'd expect statistically? That the majority members would mostly have circles representing the majority? In fact, its more telling that minorities have social circles that don't include many of the majority. Because that is a whole lot more self-selected - it can't be random. That black Americans' social circles have 65-percent minority membership is several standard deviations outside what could be normal.
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Re:As Japan's population shrinks, bears and boars roam among...
by thaumasiotes on Sunday July 10, 2016 @05:35PM
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The 2010 census shows the US as 64% non-Hispanic white. It's just as impossible for their social groups to be 91% white by random chance as it is for blacks' social groups to be 65% black.
You can explain the whites who have no connection to any nonwhite by saying that nonwhites tend to be concentrated in particular areas such as Louisiana or New York City, but that makes the nonwhites look significantly more integrated compared to the whites.