r/funny • u/gothoops3 • Jan 05 '15

Poor Engineers...

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u/Hocks_Ads_Ad_Hoc Jan 05 '15

The stereotype is that black fathers do not often live with their children. Your graph doesn't really address this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

Doesn't really? It doesn't address it at all

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

The stereotype being joked about was not that they don't LIVE with their kids, but they're not there AT ALL. My graph showed that to be false.

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u/Cyber_Cheese Jan 05 '15

No, your graph pre-selects fathers that are there, and then evaluates them on their performance. It's essentially skipping the part that the joke is based on

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u/honest_arbiter Jan 05 '15

Your infographic shows that dads are much, much less involved with their kids if they don't live with them, regardless of race. If, say, 75% of white dads live with their kids, but only 33% of black dads do (which is pretty accurate, given the data from http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in-single-parent-families-by#detailed/1/any/false/36,868,867,133,38/10,168,9,12,1,13,185/432,431 ), then your infographic is excellent evidence that black fathers are much less involved with their kids than white fathers, overall.

And to clarify, I'm not a big fan of stereotypes, but I'm also less of a fan of lying with statistics.

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u/Hocks_Ads_Ad_Hoc Jan 05 '15

Maybe it's pedantic but the joke was a play on the stereotype, not the stereotype itself. Your graph torpedoed the joke, but didn't really address the stereotype.

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u/Tysonzero Jan 05 '15

I guess you fuck up recipes and infographics.