Multiheaded comments on Open Thread, January 15-31, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Multiheaded 21 January 2012 02:48:36PM *  0 points [-]

Rather, it appears to be the case that white Americans are well overrepresented in lifetime illegal drugs use, but black Americans are slightly overrepresented in current illegal drugs use; which is what would feed into arrests — after all, you don't get arrested for snorting coke two decades ago.

Sorry, I don't understand that. Does it simply mean that white people in general as seen here used to do more drugs some years/decades ago, but now their proportion dropped below that of blacks?

Comment author: fubarobfusco 21 January 2012 03:27:49PM 0 points [-]

Maybe but not necessarily. It would be consistent with, for instance, there being proportionally more white people who tried illegal drugs once and didn't continue using.

Illegal drugs are an interesting place to try some Bayescraft.

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