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Thread #135090   Message #3169813
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
13-Jun-11 - 08:22 AM
Thread Name: BS: Muslim prejudice
Subject: RE: BS: Muslim prejudice
""I put up my theory and you should try to find fault and/or an alternative.""

Fault is it? OK:-

Your theory is that aspects of their culture predispose (slightly) young British Pakistanis to sex trafficking, and Paedophilia.

The faults, or flaws, in this theory are

1. Several other ethnic groups in this country have exactly the same cultural mores as Pakistanis (Indian, Sikh, etc.), yet have no such problem with their young men.

2. Out of 1.2 million British Pakistanis, only a handful in a very confined area of the country have been found indulging in this "cultural" aberration.

3. As has been said before, your claims of over representation stem from skewed statistics which no genuine mathematician would adduce as even indicating, much less proving a conclusion.

4. Even were the statistics more solidly based, any over representation cannot possibly support your "cultural effect" theory.

It is simply not tenable in the face of the minute proportion of the British Pakistani community involved.

The conclusion: Your extrapolation from a miniscule sample to a conclusion about the whole community is totally invalid.

The best you have, is a statistical anomaly arrising from a localised activity of a small number of sexual predators, who happen to be ethnic Pakistani.

In short, the only way in which you can manage to maintain your "theory" is by ignoring a whole body of cantrary evidence.

Don T.