Re:Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017)
by schrodinger on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:41AM
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The situation isn’t that 10% of purple have been incarcerated; if it was, you’d be correct.
Instead, the situation is that 90% of those incarcerated are purple. You can’t draw any meaningful conclusions from that without knowing the number that you were referring to: what percentage of purple people that makes up.
Re:Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017)
by imgabe on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:48AM
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You are flipping around the percentages. Parent says "10% of incarcerated people are purple". This does not imply that "10% of purple people are incarcerated".
Re:Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017)
by tnzn on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:20AM
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Except that's not what happens.
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Huh? If 10% of purple people in an area have been incarcerated, and you select one individual from the purple people population of that area at random, the odds are 10% the individual you selected will have been incarcerated. That's fundamental to how sampling works.