On Thursday 13 Sep 2007 7:04 am, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > "Other things" are clearly not equal in the example you construct > below. To take one example, you ignore the effects of social > conditioning that pushes Indian (and others too!) immigrants to get > postgraduate degrees, and work hard in their new milieu.
I submit that the correllation relative poverty==greater tendency to crime is itself beset by a whole host of uncertainities and improbables that make the assertion one that is conveniently being used to buttress the argument that Mumbai police are more likely to be criminals because of their low salaries. There are a lot of "other things" that can be painted on to the accusers and the accused to make allegations and counter allegations meaningless unless more effort goes into defining exactly what "other things" come into play in any given situation. shiv
