Timeline for Is there a correlation between voting for the Democratic Party and gun crimes in the USA?
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| Oct 4, 2014 at 15:43 | comment | added | David | The infographic is intended to be tongue-in-cheek. Correlation does not imply causation. There typically is a high rate of poverty and a high crime rate in US inner cities. Many people assume a causal relationship between the latter & the former. The graphic simply points out that there are other things that correlate highly with inner-city crime - in particular an overwhelming affinity for one political party - and makes an equally facile claim about causality based on correlation. (Not enough rep to answer.) | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 7:28 | comment | added | Sklivvz | @Relaxed The picture does contain a fallacy, but it also makes two clear factual claims: 1. that stats are so and so; 2. that restricting guns in this way would be effective. Showing that there is also a fallacy does not address either claim. In particular, the question specifically asks about the first claim and it clearly speaks of correlation. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 0:24 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I had no idea "Democrat" was an epithet.
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 0:00 | comment | added | Relaxed | To interested readers: The claim is a classic case of ecological fallacy (but I can't explain how because moderators apparently think deleting relevant stuff based on arcane rules somehow makes the site better…) | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 23:43 | comment | added | Sklivvz | To the answerers: please review our policies on theoretical answers and original research before proceeding. | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 23:42 | history | protected | Sklivvz | ||
| Oct 1, 2014 at 13:00 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | Also note the off colour selection: In contrast to what one would expect, green does not represent the best value, but a rather bad one. | |
| Sep 30, 2014 at 18:40 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSkeptic/status/517021113847930883 | ||
| Sep 30, 2014 at 16:32 | vote | accept | user5341 | ||
| Sep 29, 2014 at 23:41 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited tags; edited title
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| Sep 29, 2014 at 21:55 | answer | added | ChrisW | timeline score: 48 | |
| Sep 29, 2014 at 18:42 | comment | added | jwodder | I somehow doubt that politifake.org can be considered a notable source. | |
| Sep 29, 2014 at 18:38 | answer | added | Larry OBrien | timeline score: 32 | |
| Sep 29, 2014 at 17:13 | history | asked | user5341 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |