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I think @Noahpinion is basically arguing that because America is made up of whites (baseline crime rate) & blacks (5x white crime rate), adding illegal aliens (1.5x white crime rate) lowers the average RATE of crime by diluting the black population, even as it increases crime https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1032621169692663813 …
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is that there is a spectrum of agregation. At one end is "consider each person individually, with absolute knowledge". At the other end is "there are 7 billion people and we can't draw distinctions between ANY of them". First is impossible. Second is stupid.
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so we can / do / should make as good decisions as possible, using as much data as possible. So: we look askance at people who have committed 1 murder. This is unfair! Many will never commit another. Ideally we'd let in murderers who will never commit another. ...but we don't
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