• Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    10 months ago

    Nice story… except is misses a bunch of things…

    1. They were literally bred to fight and be murderers… So it’s not really a “story” in the fictional sense is it?
    2. None of this has stopped pit bulls from showing up everywhere (virtually every dog in shelters) even people who are just normal every day lives have this problem… (https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/18vhb4c/pitbull_runs_up_and_attacks_mother_and_her_dog/ as one example, you can scroll the subreddit and seen thousands more at your leisure.)
    3. Rottweilers ALSO have this “man killer” representation… yet doesn’t have this same problem per capita. As a matter of fact, many other dog breeds have equal or WORSE reputations DO NOT have this problem.

    So you can about some statistical story of legos… but that isn’t the reality we’re living in here. If anything you’ve provided more evidence that they should be destroyed (and I’m not in favor of actual destruction, but mandatory spay/nueter and make it illegal to breed them is more in line with my idea of an answer).

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      10 months ago

      You’re missing the fact that I’m specifically addressing your decision to present “per captia” as being definitive proof of pitbulls being man-killers. I even stated that it’s entirely possible that they could, in fact, truly be man-killers, however the stats could be skewed so “per captia” can’t be the definitive proof.

      If you want a real-world example of “per captia” being falsely skewed, look up stats on crime or IQ per race. You’ll find they’re heavily skewed against black people. However, if you continue to dig, you’ll find there are plenty of reasons to question the validity of those stats.

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        10 months ago

        If you want a real-world example of “per captia” being falsely skewed, look up stats on crime or IQ per race. You’ll find they’re heavily skewed against black people. However, if you continue to dig, you’ll find there are plenty of reasons to question the validity of those stats.

        Yes this would imply that there’s only one body conducting these sorts of stats under just one metric. Except this is universal. Which is why I, in other comments, have pointed out crowdsourced lists as well… Showing that it’s not just the stats from the USA coming to this conclusion.

        The reason measuring IQ by race is an issue is because IQ isn’t even a good metric to measure intelligence anyway. Thus people who say that black people are less intelligent by measurement of IQ are morons from the get-go. And I never made “per capita” as my only proof. You’re just focused on that and have read other threads.

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          10 months ago

          Crowdsourcing info from people that aren’t experts and can’t tell the difference between a Pitbull and an American bulldog or a boxer, truly we’ve reached the peak of the scientific method!