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To: greenspirit who wrote (42628)	6/29/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

Why on earth would I want to try and prove that? Do you have me confused with someone else?

To: greenspirit who wrote (42628)	6/29/1999 12:29:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Perhaps Stephen, I was simply trying to point out that many government policies are implemented without a statistical or causal relationship.

To: greenspirit who wrote (42628)	6/29/1999 12:44:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

Precisely, Michael. The same thing is often true with inferences of racism, as in the red- lining case a few years back. It turned out that the default rate on loans to African- Americans was virtually the same as that for whites, which suggested that the loan officers had used sound financial criteria, but the banks were bullied into a consent decree anyway. Anyway, the point is not to deny the use of reason, as some would have it, but to point to the probabilistic character of most such disputes, and the inevitably of bias muddying the waters....