Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Strazdas1 t1_iveocuv wrote

Reply to comment by Irish_Astronaut in Examining 100,000 crime-related posts from 14,000 Facebook pages maintained by U.S. law enforcement agencies between 2010 and 2019, researchers found that Facebook users are exposed to posts that overrepresent Black suspects by 25% relative to local arrest rates by giuliomagnifico

They removed most of the data, then got results that support their worldview.

4

Irish_Astronaut t1_iveuzhj wrote

I mean I get that...but what is a UCR part 1 offense? How does getting rid of it affect that data? The second bullet, what's that about?

3

Strazdas1 t1_ivf52v0 wrote

> UCR part 1

Part I Offenses include murder, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson, human trafficking – commercial sex acts, and human trafficking – involuntary servitude.

So basically any arrests for things that are lighter than that got dropped from the data.

The second bullet point is if the sum of race-categorized arrests is not the same as sum of arrests in the dataset they replaced the total with the sum of race-categorized ones. This theoretically shouldnt be an issue and are probably rounding errors.

3

peer-reviewed-myopia t1_ivflm7r wrote

The replacement was actually made for individual agency reports, not the whole dataset. So, definitely not just rounding errors.

2