@Gratefulmom

Hey, if parents want to send their kids to a completely unregulated daycare where the "education" is having kids swing sticks around in the rain and -20 degree weather, that's their choice (though it sounds to me more like ancient Sparta than a modern Kindergarten).

As for me, on the other hand, I prefer my daughter get the scientifically proven lifelong benefits of a proper preschool education. See this book for an example of the scientific evidence I'm talking about.

All the science I've seen on kids playing outdoors (including that on outdoor kindergartens: see for example this article) shows that around 1-2 hours a day outside is enough to see significant results. My daughter gets at least that much in the park after kindergarten most days when the weather is nice, so I'm not so worried about her development.

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@longde

Right, it's worth noting that the range of violence displayed by sub-cultures is the same, but are you saying that the averages are the same as well?

This came up in another thread as well, so let's look at the averages (as opposed to anecdotes).


In the US, people might guess that, per capita, a black person is 50% or 100% more likely to kill a white or latino person than the other way around. But the actual number appears to be much higher at 1200%.

According to the FBI's most recent statistics, where available, twice as many whites/latinos are killed by blacks, numerically, as blacks by whites/latinos in the U.S. In 2010 (where reported), the murder numbers were 447 vs 218. This means, statistically, that a black person is over 100% more likely to kill a white/latino person than the other way around.

To get per capita statistics (murders per race as percentage of population ratio), we take into account the differences sizes of the populations:
• 447 murders / 12.6 of US pop. = 35.5 per capita black on white/latino murders.
• 218 murders / 72.4 of US pop. = 3.0 per capita white/latino on black murders.
That means that an individual member of the black community is 1200% (35.5 / 3) more likely to murder a white/latino person than the other way around.

The article I linked to above mentioned that ghetto thugs target Asian Americans for muggings, so it's worth noting that, since asians have even lower crime rates than whites or latinos, that 1200% ratio would be even higher for the black / asian ratios.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

I'll upvote for jail time--not before.


As long as videos better people's life outcomes, it's probably prosocial and humanitarian to not hide them.


The women I know who have had this happen would have been better off with more data from which to draw when deciding whether to control risks by walking around questionable neighborhoods or taking a cab.

I think it's easy for men to downplay the experiences of women, but because of size and strength differences, even relatively mild events like shown in this video can confine women to bed for weeks.


It's annoying to get nighttime calls from sobbing women who are close to you.

Did some digging and it looks like it's a vimeo issue. I find this is the video it's trying to load:

http://a.vimeocdn.com/p/flash/workingfromhome/1.0.2/workingfromhome.swf?clip%5Fid=23462420&server=vimeo%2Ecom&show%5Ftitle=1&show%5Fbyline=0&show%5Fpo
rtrait=0&color=00adef&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0&error%5Ftitle=Sorry&error%5Fmessage=The+creator+of+this+video+has+not+given+you+permission+to+emb
ed+it+on+this+domain%2E%0A%0AThis+is+a+%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo%2Ecom%2Fplus%22+target%3D%22%5Fblank%22%3EVimeo+Plus%3C%2Fa%3E+feature%2E&err
or%5Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo%2Ecom%2F23462420

You can see in there:
"The+creator+of+this+video+has+not+given+you+permission+to+embed+it+on+this+domain"


In reply to this comment by Norsuelefantti:
Hi Lucky, I have a problem with a vimeo embed. For some reason this video doesn't play or even appear on the sift page, even though the embed checks out allright when validating.

The sift and vimeo source in question:

http://videosift.com/video/The-Greatest-Best-Wedding-Proposal-of-All-Time-Ever-Forever

http://vimeo.com/23462420

help plz!