An Unbelievable Stat (I mean this literally)

The other day, my brother told me that someone had informed him that crime in this country is divided like so: 60% committed by African-Americans, 49% committed by Latino-Americans, and 1% committed by Anglo-Americans. I told him right there, "I highly doubt that buddy." Why? First off, add the numbers up. What do they equal? 110%. Now, I know some coaches like to rattle off that old cliche, "Allright men, I want you to give me 110% out there!" But, in all reality, it's not possible. If I have one bowling ball in my possession that I want to sell, I cannot sell that bowling ball and with 10% of another one. I cannot sell 110% of my own bowling ball when there's only one there. See what I'm getting at? So, I have no idea whose rear-end these numbers came out of, but the numbers are inaccurate and stink to high heaven. I can only wonder who informed my brother of this. Maybe this individual is affiliated with some radical group, because even if one were to lessen the African-Americans' percentage down to 50, which would make it work from a mathematical standpoint, it's still ridiculous to believe that only 1% of crime is committed by Anglo-Americans, meanwhile African-Americans and Latino-Americans commit 99% of the crime. That has to be one of the dumbest things I've heard someone say for a while and to speak of it like a "fact" was the worst part. "A friend of mine saw this in a study." Uh-huh, what was the source? The Ku Klux Klan? Give me a break.

I've got a stat that I saw in a "study" the other day. Anyone who believes those crime statistics I noted above are more ignorant and less competent than emus from a mathematical perspective (and beyond), even with a calculator in their hands.