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Originally Posted by dellinger63
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That article is a fine example of misrepresenting stats. From the article:
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In 2013, for example, 62.4 percent of hate crime victims were attacked because of anti-Jewish bias, while 11.6 percent were victims of anti-Islamic bias.
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I clicked the link in the article to the FBI article, but in fact, the 62.4 percent statistic refers to victims of religious bias, and they make up only 16.9 percent of total hate crime victims. Compared to 49.3 percent of total victims being targeted because of their race and of that 49.3 percent, 66.5 percent of the victims were targeted because they were black.
So that's wrong. Either the author was being disingenuous, or he's lazy.
I'm not sure what the point of including hate crime stats in the article was, other than basically saying, "Look! White men hate Jews even more than they do Muslims!" (since the average hate crime perpetrator is a white man), but good grief, if an article is going to deliberately misrepresent stats, the author should do a better job hiding it than this one did.