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Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 07 2018, @07:04AM   
from the numbers-don't-lie dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Fred Reed's mathematical analysis of Trump's Wall proves that Trump is insincere, proves that Trump is mathematically incompetent, and earns Fred Reed an honorary nerd card:

https://fredoneverything.org/the-wall-the-sound-and-the-fury-and-not-much-else/

More math!

~childo

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• Re:a badly done and obsolete study Re:a badly done and obsolete study (Score: 2) by tonyPick on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:44AM (1 child)

  by tonyPick (1237) on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:44AM (#619083) Homepage Journal

  Perhaps a more serious error is conflating "immigrants" with "illegal aliens". This particularly affects the section on crime.

  Well, it's clear about the sources of data being built on extrapolations between legal and illegal immigrants behaviours, data sets which combine the two populations and indirect surveys, which means any oputputs will be estimates based on the combined behaviour of the two populations. It's more specific where it can be.

  And to take your example, on crime, the FAIR statistic downthread: [politifact.com]

  produces the state's incarceration costs for illegal immigrants based on the state Department of Corrections' "illegal alien" count of inmates. However, no such count exists. Instead, the state keeps tabs on all inmates who are not U.S. citizens, whether they're in the country legally or illegally.

  Which somehow is suddenly not a problem for anyone quoting those numbers?

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• politifact is a PR firm (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @06:22AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @06:22AM (#619430)

  Politifact provides PR service for democrats.

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