True and false. The white dude with the lab coat metaphor is a very good one, but I have been to and thoroughly explored the overwhelming majority of the places I mention, including Gary IN.
True, it's an extreme example. But it's about the odds, of course you could get hit by a drunk driver or even shot in Minnetonka, but even if you include all other unnatural forms of death besides murder, Gary people are dying at an exponentially higher rate than those in Minnetonka (year after year). I think that says something right there, I think it matters. I've been both places but knew how they were alike and how they were different before I set foot on either one.
It's that word "odds" again. If 1% of the population in City A is crazy muthafuckas and 10% of the population in City B is crazy muthafuckas, then life is going to be a lot more challenging in City B.
It's that word "odds" again. If a dude from Minnetonka claims to be a real thug, and a dude from Gary IN claims to be a real thug, I'm not going to believe either one of them until they provide evidence, HOWEVER, I would suspect that there is a greater chance the dude from Minnetonka is fake.
Using a non-musical and more uplifting real life example, if you're the federal govt and you're going to put a free library somewhere, and the criteria is to reach the most children who are well into their elementary school years and are way below reading level, where would you put it? If the choice was between Tonka and Gary, where would you put it? They are the same size, and there are kids in Tonka that can't read, there are kids in Gary that can't read. What do you do, put them on the wall and throw a dart???
No, you side with "ratio data" over the touchy feely postmodern way at looking at society.
True, it's an extreme example. But it's about the odds, of course you could get hit by a drunk driver or even shot in Minnetonka, but even if you include all other unnatural forms of death besides murder, Gary people are dying at an exponentially higher rate than those in Minnetonka (year after year). I think that says something right there, I think it matters. I've been both places but knew how they were alike and how they were different before I set foot on either one.
It's that word "odds" again. If 1% of the population in City A is crazy muthafuckas and 10% of the population in City B is crazy muthafuckas, then life is going to be a lot more challenging in City B.
It's that word "odds" again. If a dude from Minnetonka claims to be a real thug, and a dude from Gary IN claims to be a real thug, I'm not going to believe either one of them until they provide evidence, HOWEVER, I would suspect that there is a greater chance the dude from Minnetonka is fake.
Using a non-musical and more uplifting real life example, if you're the federal govt and you're going to put a free library somewhere, and the criteria is to reach the most children who are well into their elementary school years and are way below reading level, where would you put it? If the choice was between Tonka and Gary, where would you put it? They are the same size, and there are kids in Tonka that can't read, there are kids in Gary that can't read. What do you do, put them on the wall and throw a dart???
No, you side with "ratio data" over the touchy feely postmodern way at looking at society.
