Here's how I think this stuff develops: Columbine happens Stoner voice: "hey man ever notice how these shooters are always white?" thought spreads Everyone half-joking to each other: "lol another white shooter" A few years later "Science has proven that all mass shooters r white" https://twitter.com/StoklasaStroker/status/930888851857592320 …
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This stuff starts from jokes or vague ideas and develops through groupthink into disastrously wrong ideas about statistics. There are other examples, too.
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It's also the taboo on saying anything bad about non-whites. That biases the groupthink toward certain conclusions.
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