Originally Posted by
Pratt
The first thing one notices about the statistics is that there are no p values associated with the differences.
The raw numbers she something like 7.5 deaths of whites and about 34 deaths of Blacks, per 100,000,000 miles. Another way of looking at that is that the chance of a Black person having a fatal accident on a bike is 0.000000034 vs 0.0000000075 for a white person.
Those are like lottery numbers. I'm not sure that either number is statistically different from zero.
Thank you. This has been my argument even without seeing the data. But about that. One thing that I haven't seen discussed whenever racial disparities comes up. Blacks yada yada more than White. There are 8x more White people than Black people. So if 34 Black people are killed per Million miles vs 7.5 White people. It's actually a jaw dropping disparity. Much more than the 34/7.5 on its face would indicate.