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It's a lot of fun to form beliefs in the absence of data.



It's a lot of fun to assume. /s

How do you know I haven't formed this view based on data? You're assuming I don't have any data.


Because if you had data you'd be like, "here's the data."

If your guess is right, we'd see differences in the effects of Jim Crow depending on what part of the country people lived in. Well, do we? I don't know.


> we'd see differences in the effects of Jim Crow depending on what part of the country people lived in

That's one, very obtuse hypothesis.


Interesting you replied to this and not the parent?


Seems appropriate because it applies up the whole comment chain.

And if you're going to try and draw conclusions, then come out and say it instead of noncommittally leaving it up to our imagination.




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