In modern times ( the 21st century and late 20th) statistics have become an easy way to explain complicated issues. Just look at baseball, and the great statistic of war( wins against replacements)Now I’m trying to figure out exactly how one gets those figures. There are so many variables in baseball that it makes that statistic almost laughable.
Now let’s look at real life. The United States government is giving debt relief to black farmers stating that it was almost impossible for them to get loans and when they did get loans and the government pass them by for debt relief only 3 % black farmers got the relief. Those statistics are true. It’s also true that 60% of the money went to industrial agriculture. It’s also true that only 39% of American farmers got any kind of debt relief. No wonder that white farmers are mad as hell.
In NYC African American and Latino died of COVID-19 at a far greater number then Euro Americans. Statistic show it. What these statistics do not show is why. Was it the hospitals that they went to? Was it the fact that they have greater health problems? Perhaps it just the luck of the draw.
* The purpose of my rambling is to show that without the full numbers and the variables statistics can be bad and even have an adverse effect ( especially for the Democratic Party).
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