# White Supremacy is not a rhetorical tactic, ZPG\_Zealot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 12, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-supremacy-is-not-a-rhetorical-tactic-zpg-zealot/920396 "2020-09-12T06:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 89
**Author:** ![damuriajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-supremacy-is-not-a-rhetorical-tactic-zpg-zealot/920396/89 "2020-09-13T13:13:59Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Incidentally, while looking at that thread, the one belittling **iiandyiii** declared that experts in statistics will laugh at the Pro-Publica article, only to have [Buck Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-accusations-of-raicsm-sexism-bigotry-abused/821332/231) (statistics PhD) come to defend **iiandyiii** and the article. Yes, and the statistics phd reassessed after I pointed out that there were actually peer reviewed studies so we didn’t have to rely on the back of the envelope calculations by pro-publica. I don’t know if you knew this but just posted this anyway or you were so eager to take a stab at me that you didn’t look further. "Well, I guess I should say that after the two studies, the calculation didn’t need to be made. It was fine to throw numbers around and stab in the dark before we had any real facts. Yes, there is a difference if you ignore all other variables. Hell you don’t need to cherry pick the data to see statistically significant differences. The confidence interval is even better when you look at ALL the data. Peer reviewed studies saw these differences and they say that the difference is basically illusory. When comparing like to like, there is no difference between blacks and whites." > [@Are accusations of raicsm/sexism/bigotry abused?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-accusations-of-raicsm-sexism-bigotry-abused/821332/288): > > First let me apologize for taking so long between posts. Since the thread isn’t titled “Statistical analysis of Police shootings” I forget to check it. Second, I’m mostly just reading Damuri Ajashi’s comments on my posts so if I missed something that has already been covered previously in the thread I further apolgize. No what I am saying is that they did a subset analysis that resulted in a result so significant that it didn’t matter whether they data dredged or not. Perhaps and example o… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-supremacy-is-not-a-rhetorical-tactic-zpg-zealot/920396)._