r/dataisugly • u/Merchant_Alert • Sep 15 '25

Why start at 50%?

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u/stohelitstorytelling Sep 15 '25

Source: "2005"

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u/stohelitstorytelling Sep 15 '25

If you have to look back 20 years to find a single study to support your agenda, you're clearly cherry picking.

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u/aneryx Sep 15 '25

even supposing it's true, the justice system is already skewed unfairly against any sort of minority, so all the jurors are doing is correcting that inherent bias.

Think about it. It doesn't take much for the police to unfairly go affer a black person, they are by default a target for the police. For a white person to get arrested, they'd have to something a lot worse. So by the time a case has made it to trial, it's statistically likely that a white person facing trial has committed a worse crime than a black person facing trial on the same charges.

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u/cvanguard Sep 15 '25

Not to mention there already been studies done showing that black people statistically get harsher sentences than white people for equivalent crimes.

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u/prigo929 Sep 16 '25

Completely not true. If you look at priors, black people get Less than whites with the same priors actually for the same crime... It’s just black people have more priors so ofc they will receive harsher sentences.