Americans overestimate the size of minorities and underestimate the size of majorities

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

They’re giving them shyts away.

No. It stems from the misunderstanding of dropout rate/graduation rate. When you hear about stuff like "half of the black kids in XYZ don't graduate high school" the article or study doesn't explain what the cohort graduation rate is. The mistakenly or intentionally make the leap of logic that the cohort graduation rate is the same as the dropout rate when it's not.

Example of a 50% cohort graduation rate:

10 black boys in 9th grade and all graduate 9th grade.
Same 9 of the 10 black boys graduate 10th grade with one failing being held back. One of the remaining nine skips 11th and goes to 12th grade.
8 of the remaining graduate 11th grade. However, after the school year is over, two of them leave to go to another school in the same district and the other leaves for a school system in another state.
The five remaining all graduate 12th grade together with the one held back earlier actually dropping out all together in the 11th grade.

Although 8 of the original 10 graduated together on time, one graduated a year ahead of them, and one completely dropped out, it's a 50% cohort graduation rate because only 5 of the original 10 that graduated together at the same time in the same schools that articles/studies incorrectly call the dropout rate when in actuality the real dropout rate is less than 10%.

 

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And social media exacerbates everything.

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

Black people are like 40% of the population.
It was 20 million of us in 1920. That was 100 years ago

Look at your own family tree. I'm willing to bet that you're an only child or at most have two siblings. Your parents might have four or five. Your grandparents might have six to eleven. See where I'm going. We aren't replacing those of the prior generation. Black births, in the US, are just like white births. Both are below replacement levels and has been declining for decades. You know why the out of wedlock thing is so prominent nowadays? Married black women aren't having large families like they use to offseting out of wedlock births.

Although I have two other brothers, there's only one child out of us three.

My mother has three brothers, a sister, and two other brothers that were stillborn. My father has two sisters and four brothers.

My maternal grandfather had eleven siblings and my maternal grandmother had four sisters and two brothers. My maternal great-grandmother had 15 siblings. It's pretty much the same on the paternal side of my family.

 

[weather so breezy]

21% transgender??