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Old 27th May 2022, 11:44 PM   #801
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I already asked what we should do over here in Europe, where white people commit most of the mass shootings. The "conservative" melaninophobes did not answer.
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Old 30th May 2022, 03:16 AM   #802
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Originally Posted by W.D.Clinger View Post
In a thread devoted to discussion of lies and damn lies, it isn't surprising to find discussion of statistics.

The person quoted above thinks correlations between properties X and Y and between properties Y and Z imply correlation between X and Z. That fallacy is often seen in pseudoscientific attempts to support some of the arguments seen in this thread, so it's worth giving a counterexample to that fallacy.
  1. Individual 1 has property X but not Y and not Z.
  2. Individual 2 has properties X and Y and Z.
  3. Individual 3 has properties X and Y but not Z.
  4. Individual 4 has properties X and Y and Z.
  5. Individual 5 has none of the properties X, Y, and Z.
  6. Individual 6 has properties Y and Z but not X.
  7. Individual 7 has none of the properties X, Y, and Z.
  8. Individual 8 has property Z but not X and not Y.
Calculating the Pearson sample coefficients for that example,
  • the correlation between X and Y is 1/2,
  • the correlation between Y and Z is 1/2,
  • but the correlation between X and Z is 0.
OT but probability and statistics (and their analyses) should be taught properly and intensively in schools.
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Old 31st May 2022, 12:54 PM   #803
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I have been rewatching "Babylon 5" and damn it did not predict the xenophobia we are seeing now.
That Humans are being "replaced" by Aliens is the big charge of the Home Guard and other fanatic Anti Alien series And they nearly cause Intergalactic war in the series.
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Old 31st May 2022, 06:41 PM   #804
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Over the weekend I lurked a bit at one of the race-obsessed forums I used to frequent a couple years back, where open racism wasn't uncommon.

Some morbidly interesting and amusing topics include "what races/ethnicity create the Whitest offspring for Europeans", with the top two answers in the poll being North Africans/Arabs and mestizo. Lot of obsession with replacement, and certain people looking for a plan B in case they run out of European women to breed with.
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Old 31st May 2022, 10:45 PM   #805
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Originally Posted by Hercules56 View Post
Using immigration to change the political dynamics of a country is pretty dispicable.
Agreed. Same applies to continents and hemispheres. High time for an aggressive roll-back to pre-1492 conditions in the Americas. No more Europeans sailing the high seas looking for booty to the tune of Abrahamic terrorists chanting prayers whilst recording property ledger entries.
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Old 31st May 2022, 11:07 PM   #806
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Maybe the entirety of homo sapiens should "go back where they came from", which it appears is the Rift Valley in Africa. I'm sure every other species on the planet would be grateful.
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Old 16th June 2022, 05:25 AM   #807
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Well Mr.X did tell Antifa and BLM to sit home drink Beer and Make Babies.
So I guess some Proud Boys and Oath Keepers might get replaced in their Jobs, and with their Girl Friends.
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Old 16th June 2022, 06:48 AM   #808
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Senator Billboard Rawkins (from Finian’s Rainbow, 1947 musical) summed up Replacement Theory quite handily:
Originally Posted by Senator Billboard Rawkins
My family's been having nothing but trouble with immigrants ever since they came to this country!
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