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Originally Posted by Woogie Man  Hi, Bitsy..yes, I'm back, for better or worse  .
Really, I just made the 'pretty white woman' comment as a reference as to how it got started with the statistics. I found them to be not credible and slanted. Numbers don't lie, but they can be used to make just about any point one wants to make.
Now don't go testing your theory by getting yourself into trouble. We at YT don't want to have to come bail you out!! |
I don't think presenting statistics is inappropriate. You can go back and read everything that I said so that you don't feel so offended. I didn't disagree with anything the previous poster said, again if you had read. I copy pasted certain parts of the statistics because I wanted to emphasize certain points that I wanted to discuss with another poster...if I wanted to not provide all of the statistics presented there I could have simply not provided the link. If you go back a couple of posts, you would have read that I pleaded that my comments regarding race/ethnicity not offend anyone I wanted other people's input, which many people respectfully provided. Another poster provided statistics from 1997 and all I said was that it was outdated and I provided her with a more recent link that provides more recent figures, and I pointed out a statistics that I think is important to consider when evaluating it.
I would also like to add that I'm in a PhD program in which our research is solely based on statistical analysis and I know very well that statistics can be interpreted in different ways. Quite frankly I'm offended that you didn't read all of my posts before saying that what I brought up was "innapropriate" because I took great care into asking and making sure people understand what I was asking/why I was asking and that I meant to not offend anyone.