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   GB to Fredxx   
   Re: London   
   24 Jul 23 12:39:54   
   
   XPost: can.politics, uk.legal, uk.d-i-y   
   XPost: uk.comp.sys.mac   
   From: NOTsomeone@microsoft.invalid   
      
   On 24/07/2023 08:13, Fredxx wrote:   
      
   > Is that an admission that it is predominantly ethnicity, aka culture,   
   > that determines the likelihood of criminality?   
      
   You are subscribing to the usual statistical fallacy. Repeat after me:   
   "Correlation does not imply causation."   
      
   If you not careful, you will say something indicative of your state of   
   mind, like "Sending more fire engines to a blaze causes it to be bigger".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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