CDC - Estimates of new HIV infections in the United States

Re:CDC - Estimates of new HIV infections in the United States by yetanotherphd on Sunday December 22, 2013 @12:02AM (#6949436)

HIV is just waiting to get you because of your low bank balance.

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Re:CDC - Estimates of new HIV infections in the United States by smtddr on Sunday December 22, 2013 @12:22AM (#6949466)

Well played. I laughed, but see my reply to another commentor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949440

I admit without my more detailed explanation, you'd be right. low bank balance is just as absurd a cause for increased HIV infections as my brown skin is.

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Re:CDC - Estimates of new HIV infections in the United States by yetanotherphd on Sunday December 22, 2013 @12:43AM (#6949495)

Your explanation of why socio-econimic status might be correlated with HIV makes sense.

However I still think your dismissal of race as having independent explanatory power is wrong.

For example, race has independent explanatory power in predicting crime rates, even after taking into account many other social and economic variable. This doesn't mean that skin color causes crime, e.g. there could be (and almost certainly are) very many social factors that are correlated with race but hard to measure objectively.

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