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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bridge Player who wrote (83531)9/10/2008 11:15:51 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 542067
 
That seems to confuse correlation with causality, something I know you would not do intentionally.

You're correct. But that's when interpreting statistical data. Not when interpreting a sentence like "Republicans are more likely to throw mud than Democrats." The meaning of that is clear.

I submit that the serious troublemakers in any school are far more likely to come from non-religious homes.

I'm not surprised. <g>

But being black per se is not the cause.

"Cause" is not the right word in that context nor in Kate's. "Cause" was Kate's word, not mine. An obfuscation. I did everything I could to avoid the word. I said it was "a function of."

If you say "blacks are more likely to be lazy," you've slandered a minority group whether or not "being black per se" is "cause" or some other concept.
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