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mapuc · 07-09-15, 04:49 PM

Some years ago we could hear and see following in a Danish news program

"95% of bodily harm crime is committed by persons of non-Danish origin."

Some hours later, I could read comments on FB. and many of these comments made me wonder.

Are many of my friends or their friends bad in math ? Or they interprets the information based on their political beliefs

Here are what many wrote.

"Here my friends are the evidence which many people on the left refuses to see, 95 % of our foreigners are criminal"

No it does not say that 95 % of our foreigners are criminal, it says, 95 % of this type of crime is committed by foreigners and that's a big different.

(This thread is NOT about how criminal our foreigners are. It's a thread about how people interpreting the information they get)

Markus

07-09-15, 04:49 PM	#1
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,541 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	how can people misinterpret simple information ? Some years ago we could hear and see following in a Danish news program "95% of bodily harm crime is committed by persons of non-Danish origin." Some hours later, I could read comments on FB. and many of these comments made me wonder. Are many of my friends or their friends bad in math ? Or they interprets the information based on their political beliefs Here are what many wrote. "Here my friends are the evidence which many people on the left refuses to see, 95 % of our foreigners are criminal" No it does not say that 95 % of our foreigners are criminal, it says, 95 % of this type of crime is committed by foreigners and that's a big different. (This thread is NOT about how criminal our foreigners are. It's a thread about how people interpreting the information they get) Markus