Deceptive reasoning by Dr Sohail Ansari
Deceptive reasoning by Dr Sohail Ansari (I LAUGH BUT BELATEDLY part 6) N umbers are deceptive People justify the spate of recent violence in USA against black by saying different things. They quote number of white people being killed by black and say that ‘black kill many white people, but no one says anything’. ‘I can personally attest that there is plenty of anti-White racism in the USA . Not only did I experience it myself (I lived in Washington, DC from 1986-1991), but it has been amply documented by people like Colin Flaherty whose books “ White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It ” We must understand that numbers are deceptive; giving an impression different from the true one; thus misleading . Prof. Boddington has defined statistics as: “The science of estimate and probabilities.” This science is to be drawn for analyzing numerical data for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a r