doubtingt
Senior Member
Gee, more gross misrepresentations of the facts by ksen. Who'da thunk?
The actual results show that cops rarely shoot the unarmed targets and are slightly less likely to shoot black targets. They are quicker and far more accurate in their decisions to shoot than non-cops, and the tiny 10 millisecond difference in the decision times (1/60th of the total decision time) between black and white targets is a smaller gap than for non-cops, and the same difference exists when the shooter is a black cop.
Note that the decisions are being made within about 1/2 of a second of seeing the target for the first time, which is about 100 times less than the time cops typically have in assessing the actual threat of a situation. Thus, these simulations overly inflate the impact of any unconscious biases, and yet still find zero racial bias (or a slight anti-white bias) in who cops shoot.
How sad, another blind faith destroyed by the cold hard facts of science.
It isn't a conspiracy by the media. It is an effort by ksen to misrepresent the facts in support of his faith. In addition, conspiracy theories can be and often are valid and supported theories, whereas your argument that any theory is invalid if it sounds like a conspiracy theory is an always invalid logical fallacy.
The links do not support ksens assertions, they refute them. So no one needs to be misrepresenting the facts other than ksen in order for his OP to be false.
The actual results show that cops rarely shoot the unarmed targets and are slightly less likely to shoot black targets. They are quicker and far more accurate in their decisions to shoot than non-cops, and the tiny 10 millisecond difference in the decision times (1/60th of the total decision time) between black and white targets is a smaller gap than for non-cops, and the same difference exists when the shooter is a black cop.
Note that the decisions are being made within about 1/2 of a second of seeing the target for the first time, which is about 100 times less than the time cops typically have in assessing the actual threat of a situation. Thus, these simulations overly inflate the impact of any unconscious biases, and yet still find zero racial bias (or a slight anti-white bias) in who cops shoot.
How sad, another blind faith destroyed by the cold hard facts of science.
Now, now, that doesn't fit the narrative. Hide it away.
Fit the narrative?
Ah, so this is just a conspiracy by the media. It's part of their conspiracy against white people, right? I mean, when the "liberal media" conspiracy makes a big deal about missing white women but don't seem to give a shit about missing African-Americans, that is obviously part of their conspiracy against white people. When the "liberal media" conspiracy creates in the public the impression of rampant crime among inner city African-American poor people at precisely the time when crime rates in that community are plummeting, this is all part of their dastardly conspiracy against white people, right?
Come on. If you're going to try and explain things with a conspiracy theory, couldn't you at least have come up with a conspiracy that is more believable?
It isn't a conspiracy by the media. It is an effort by ksen to misrepresent the facts in support of his faith. In addition, conspiracy theories can be and often are valid and supported theories, whereas your argument that any theory is invalid if it sounds like a conspiracy theory is an always invalid logical fallacy.
The links do not support ksens assertions, they refute them. So no one needs to be misrepresenting the facts other than ksen in order for his OP to be false.