Bartender Geek

I've found the real problem comes when a figure like "80% of Plaid people engage in criminal activity" for one neighborhood, where, say, there are five plaid people and four of them run together, and then it is read by someone who lives in a community which is 50% plaid. Given earlier observations about the nearly 100:1 ratio in the proportion of blacks in various states of the USA (Maine: 0.5%; Mississippi: 35%), this is not an unrealistic nor unusual situation.