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A comment on 26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent crime conviction (2014). Parent comment

Re:26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent ... by coldtea on Saturday February 10, 2018 @12:38PM (#16348393)
>I am not being uncharitable. I am asking whether the poster has analyzed the number of studies in the USA, structured as carefully as this one, and found that they are in fact labelled racist more than 50% of the time. And if so, by whom.

What you're asking is not just uncharitable, it doesn't even make sense (even if it was possible).

It's also irrelevant to what the parent said, which is not a quantified claim that such studies are "labelled racist more than 50% of the time", but a casual "usually labelled racist".

In casual conversation "usually" doesn't mean some hard 50% + c, any more so than "often" and "a lot of times".

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Re:26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent ... by frabbit on Saturday February 10, 2018 @04:14PM (#16349634)
No one is asking for a specific "hard 50% +c". Just more than 50%. "Usually" most emphatically does not mean "often" or "a lot of times." This sort of dumbing down of dialogue and tossing about of opinions is the opposite of what HN should be.
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