Quit the doublethink, you bastard

The BBQ Pit
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I pit Peter Morris, for his roving 20˚ blind spot that stops him responding to accusations that he is a lying sack of manure.

In this post (rest of thread here), is my intent to

A) point out that it is dishonest to take a statistic that states what percentage of people released after being imprisoned some form of homicide who then are arrested for homicide and pretend that it is a statistic for the percentage of people released after being imprisoned for murder who then are arrested for homicide.

or

B) something else. To talk about how nice the weather is, perhaps.

If you picked (A), then congratulations! You have the reading comprehension skills of a primary school student.

If you picked (B), please go back to the doctor and tell him his weasel/human brain transplant was a success.

It would have been a forgivable mistake if he had realised his mistake and recanted. Instead he insists on feigning the sort of ignorance usually only exhibited by fungus and certain varieties of lichen.

P.S. Also, don’t be a dick if you edit your post and someone had already started responding to the original version.

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Actually, does the clarification really matter? If someone gets homicided under whatever circumstances by someone with an earlier felony conviction, 2.4% of the time that conviction is for car theft, 1.2% of the time it’s for homicide, under whatever circumstances.

I don’t see it as a particularly relevant or interesting argument pro- or con-capital punishment, though.
Peter Morris is indeed a dick, of course, but wait ten minutes and you can get a much meatier Pitting than this.

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I don’t think you read that right. The way I read the chart, 1.2% of homicide parolees will get rearrested for homicide, and 2.4% of car theft parolees will get rearrested for homicide. Certainly it’s skewed for things like involuntary manslaughter and vehicular homicide, however it does provide food for thought, and additional analysis might prove interesting.

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I thought it was: Of people arrested for homicide, 2.4% had car theft as their last conviction and 1.2% had another homicide as their last conviction. As someone has pointed out, car thieves are more common than “homiciders”, so I’m not sure how this stat says anything meaningful.

ETA: On further examination, obviously what this needs most is further examination.

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But you don’t understand. Water flows under ground!