If you didn't have the "No offense but..." at the top, I'd assume you were posting in support of me. What you describe about how it probably happened is exactly how I envision it happening. The only quibble is that I don't think that "About twelve and a half percent of the population times two equals about 25%" means there's a 25% chance that one of the two testers would be African-American.
It's not your math that I'm questioning, it's the assumption that 12.4% of the population means that any slice of our population will yield somewhere around that same representation. If that were a safe assumption, then I wouldn't have made this post in the first place. It would be a funny odd quirk of fate that this happenstance slipped through rather than a symptom of something bigger and more troubling.
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Re: No offense but...
on 2009-12-22 04:13 pm (UTC)It's not your math that I'm questioning, it's the assumption that 12.4% of the population means that any slice of our population will yield somewhere around that same representation. If that were a safe assumption, then I wouldn't have made this post in the first place. It would be a funny odd quirk of fate that this happenstance slipped through rather than a symptom of something bigger and more troubling.