It's a shame that you are focusing on quantity over quality - see if you can condense your mess of thoughts into the key points.
The problem isn't the text in DN or "my failure to provide good links", the problem is rather that the data is so fucking hard to find.
Yes, that is a standard problem when you try to fit the data to your perceptions. Try doing it the other way around.
Irrelevant and just an attempt to excuse the raw data. The immigrants are like they are. They aren't Swedes. Any adjusted data would be false data. And the thing is that even if you adjust it they won't be on par with Swedes anyway.
The confounding factors are never irrelevant to the issue of what the data tells us vs what we project onto it. Do you understand what the confounding factors are in attempting to draw an interpretation from these raw statistics?
That immigrants commit more crimes than Swedes,
This is demonstrably false. You seem to be mixing relative and absolute measures, which is understandable given your weak grasp of what has been measured.
How sad. It is difficult to say if it is cognitive dissonance with you, or just a lack of ability to reason.
The opinion piece from DN in 2005 is not data. Can you not tell the difference? A real discussion about "data" would involve issues such as: what were the confounding factors in the study?, what was the method of data collection?, are the results significant? what can be inferred safely from the data and what is over-interpretation?. The report that you link to has been discussed to death, but given that you are putting forward bra.se as an authority, here is what they have to say about it:
In recent times, simplistic and occasionally completely inaccurate information about Sweden and Swedish migration policy has been disseminated. Here, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs looks at some of the most common claims.
Claim: "There has been a major increase in the number of rapes in Sweden."
Facts: The number of reported rapes in Sweden has risen. But the definition of rape has broadened over time, which makes it difficult to compare the figures. It is also misleading to compare the figures with other countries, as many acts that are considered rape under Swedish law are not considered rape in many other countries.
For example: If a woman in Sweden reports that she has been raped by her husband every night for a year, that is counted as 365 separate offences; in most other countries this would be registered as a single offence, or would not be registered as an offence at all.
Willingness to report such offences also differs dramatically between countries. A culture in which these crimes are talked about openly, and victims are not blamed, will also have more cases reported. Sweden has made a conscious effort to encourage women to report any offence.
Claim: "Refugees are behind the increase in crime, but the authorities are covering it up."
Facts: According to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention's Swedish Crime Survey, some 13 per cent of the population were the victim of an offence against them personally in 2015. This is an increase on preceding years, although it is roughly the same level as in 2005.
The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention has conducted two studies into the representation of people from foreign backgrounds among crime suspects, the most recent in 2005. The studies show that the majority of those suspected of crimes were born in Sweden to two Swedish-born parents. The studies also show that the vast majority of people from foreign backgrounds are not suspected of any crimes.
People from foreign backgrounds are suspected of crimes more often than people from a Swedish background. According to the most recent study, people from foreign backgrounds are 2.5 times more likely to be suspected of crimes than people born in Sweden to Swedish-born parents. In a later study, researchers at Stockholm University showed that the main difference in terms of criminal activity between immigrants and others in the population was due to differences in the socioeconomic conditions in which they grew up in Sweden. This means factors such as parents' incomes, and the social circumstances in the area in which an individual grew up.
Swedish government agencies have nothing to gain from covering up statistics and facts; they seek an open and fact-based dialogue. Sweden is an open society governed by a principle of public access to official documents. This means that members of the public, e.g. private individuals and media representatives, have the right to insight into and access to information about the activities of central and local government.
Oh dear, you're not very good at this are you? Deep breath, take pills, try to summon coherent thoughts. I'm sure you can do it if you really try. I believe in you sugar.
Underlying rate: X. Change in reporting standard: Y.
Without any knowledge of X or Y, you claim that another pair of unknown values for some other country (x and y) should result in XY xy. Why is that? Your doublethink slogan is cute, if somewhat hypocritical, but can you actually provide an explanation for why these four unknown values should produce the comparison that you claim?
You are quite slow of thinking. Trying to fit the world onto your perceptions rather than the other way around will not work. Even if you excitedly yell FACT when you think you have it right.
I like the proverb in your sig, but a slightly more idiomatic translation might be: "The nail that sticks out furthest gets hammered the most". The best sounding translation (to my ears) probably changes the original meaning slightly, but scans better in English: "The nail that sticks out furthest gets hammered hardest".
The far left has always obsessed with people's ideologies more than their genetics. It would be more accurate to say that the far left obsess over the color of people's thoughts, while the right fusses over the color of their skin. Dividing the world into groups to control is common to extremists of all kinds.
To be even fairer - it sounds cooler that way. For years after we had learned the SI prefixes in school I still wondered about what fantastic scale "Jiga-" must lie on:)
The far right hasn't changed so much: you are still obsessed with the color of people's skin and trying to divide the world into separate groups of us and them that you can control more easily. The uniform is not so well hidden under this "alt right" veneer of "respectability". You are still defined by what you hate.
Suddenly you seem well versed in the details of swedish rape cases, yet only a few posts ago you were parroting the well-trodden shit about the "rape capital" of the world. If all countries had sweden's level of reporting and definition of multiple offences then it is unlikely they would continue to have the highest stats. Either you suffer from "selective understanding" or you really need to troll harder.
The aliasing that I saw was kind of weird, could have been the earlier hardware or the software demo that was running on it. The "pixels" that were visible was not a regular grid of squares. They looked like a tessalating pattern, where each pixel in the image had a shape that looked like several smaller rectangles glued together. The overall effect was like looking at a textile "mesh" or a screendoor close up.
The other unit that I played with was a newer chinese unit (I forget the brand name). It had integrated eye tracking and more sophisticated software. In that unit the image just looked chunky - i.e. A regular pixel grid that was slightly out of focus. The effect was similar to rendering a lo-res image and upscaling it through a bicubic filter, although I guess the blurring was from a physical part of the system rather than a filtering step.
I'm looking forward to trying out the consumer units to see how they look.
This sounds pretty cool. In a race the driving controls are superb, but camera control is difficult to map onto something that is easy to use while concentrating on driving. Being able to look at wing mirrors or over the shoulder while driving sounds awesome.
I tried a rift at work last week (think it was DR2). The low quality shocked me, horrific lens distortion and chunky grating pixelation. People seem to have different tolerances for resolution, but I would say that it needs to double to be comfortable to use. At current resolutions it feels horrific.
Relative levels of quality between the rift and the vive are interesting: but the absolute level seems too low on this first generation (personal opinion obviously, YMMV). I'm still looking forward to trying Project Cars on a vive to see what it can do.
The head tracking was flawless on the systems that I've tried so far - immersion was spot on. But I'm surprised that resolution felt like such a deal breaker. It is probably adaption from switching to 4k panels at work and at home. Driving higher resolution at 90hz will probably take a couple of gfx card generations. I hope your early adoption tax gives it enough momentum to see what a 2nd or 3rd generation product looks like.
The guy that I'm thinking of had turned his bonus cheque into something fast and sporty. After a minor scrape with a truck he had blamed the car, the road and the other driver. A week later when lost it at a roundabout he didn't admit the reason straight away - but after a few beers it was gently teased out of him that it was just too much power for his level of skill. He traded it in for something much slower.
Some of those people are cheating - some of them are not. If the spot that you were creeping towards is popular then people will blind fire at it anyway. There many be far more cases when the person blind firing doesn't hit anything - but nobody will see those (unless they happen to be spectating them). The only cases that people see are the rare occasions that it works - and without any way to determine the sample size it looks like clairvoyance (or cheating).
It's the same effect as the stock scam: pick 1024 people and tell 512 that a stock will go up on a day, and the other 512 that it will go down. Drop anyone that gets a false predication and repeat ten times until some sucker thinks that you have a gift for picking stocks.
What storm? They're a consultancy firm in the Swedish IT industry. They will graze until it is time to retire. They have adapted perfectly to their niche in the ecosystem, which is probably decorated with reasonable quality coffee and cinamon buns.
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It's a shame that you are focusing on quantity over quality - see if you can condense your mess of thoughts into the key points.
Yes, that is a standard problem when you try to fit the data to your perceptions. Try doing it the other way around.
The confounding factors are never irrelevant to the issue of what the data tells us vs what we project onto it. Do you understand what the confounding factors are in attempting to draw an interpretation from these raw statistics?
This is demonstrably false. You seem to be mixing relative and absolute measures, which is understandable given your weak grasp of what has been measured.
How sad. It is difficult to say if it is cognitive dissonance with you, or just a lack of ability to reason.
The opinion piece from DN in 2005 is not data. Can you not tell the difference? A real discussion about "data" would involve issues such as: what were the confounding factors in the study?, what was the method of data collection?, are the results significant? what can be inferred safely from the data and what is over-interpretation?. The report that you link to has been discussed to death, but given that you are putting forward bra.se as an authority, here is what they have to say about it:
Oh dear, you're not very good at this are you? Deep breath, take pills, try to summon coherent thoughts. I'm sure you can do it if you really try. I believe in you sugar.
Oh how scary! An internet tough guy. Sure thing sweetheart.
No point in reading the whining of a racist fuck like you.
You repeatedly make claims about the distribution of ethnicity among the population of claimed racists. Do you have any real data to back it up?
Underlying rate: X.
Change in reporting standard: Y.
Without any knowledge of X or Y, you claim that another pair of unknown values for some other country (x and y) should result in XY xy. Why is that? Your doublethink slogan is cute, if somewhat hypocritical, but can you actually provide an explanation for why these four unknown values should produce the comparison that you claim?
You are quite slow of thinking. Trying to fit the world onto your perceptions rather than the other way around will not work. Even if you excitedly yell FACT when you think you have it right.
So... in some sense the only way to win is not to play?
Would you prefer a nice game of Chess?
I like the proverb in your sig, but a slightly more idiomatic translation might be: "The nail that sticks out furthest gets hammered the most". The best sounding translation (to my ears) probably changes the original meaning slightly, but scans better in English: "The nail that sticks out furthest gets hammered hardest".
The far left has always obsessed with people's ideologies more than their genetics. It would be more accurate to say that the far left obsess over the color of people's thoughts, while the right fusses over the color of their skin. Dividing the world into groups to control is common to extremists of all kinds.
To be even fairer - it sounds cooler that way. For years after we had learned the SI prefixes in school I still wondered about what fantastic scale "Jiga-" must lie on :)
The far right hasn't changed so much: you are still obsessed with the color of people's skin and trying to divide the world into separate groups of us and them that you can control more easily. The uniform is not so well hidden under this "alt right" veneer of "respectability". You are still defined by what you hate.
Suddenly you seem well versed in the details of swedish rape cases, yet only a few posts ago you were parroting the well-trodden shit about the "rape capital" of the world. If all countries had sweden's level of reporting and definition of multiple offences then it is unlikely they would continue to have the highest stats. Either you suffer from "selective understanding" or you really need to troll harder.
More likely it is in the euro-version of the metric system, you may read it (in your best Imperial Units voice) as 1.172Ghz.
Why does every OS installation warn you not to power-off during installation if the worst possible error can be fixed simply by reinstalling?
How do you know they didn't use vague terms quite specifically?
The aliasing that I saw was kind of weird, could have been the earlier hardware or the software demo that was running on it. The "pixels" that were visible was not a regular grid of squares. They looked like a tessalating pattern, where each pixel in the image had a shape that looked like several smaller rectangles glued together. The overall effect was like looking at a textile "mesh" or a screendoor close up.
The other unit that I played with was a newer chinese unit (I forget the brand name). It had integrated eye tracking and more sophisticated software. In that unit the image just looked chunky - i.e. A regular pixel grid that was slightly out of focus. The effect was similar to rendering a lo-res image and upscaling it through a bicubic filter, although I guess the blurring was from a physical part of the system rather than a filtering step.
I'm looking forward to trying out the consumer units to see how they look.
This sounds pretty cool. In a race the driving controls are superb, but camera control is difficult to map onto something that is easy to use while concentrating on driving. Being able to look at wing mirrors or over the shoulder while driving sounds awesome.
I tried a rift at work last week (think it was DR2). The low quality shocked me, horrific lens distortion and chunky grating pixelation. People seem to have different tolerances for resolution, but I would say that it needs to double to be comfortable to use. At current resolutions it feels horrific.
Relative levels of quality between the rift and the vive are interesting: but the absolute level seems too low on this first generation (personal opinion obviously, YMMV). I'm still looking forward to trying Project Cars on a vive to see what it can do.
The head tracking was flawless on the systems that I've tried so far - immersion was spot on. But I'm surprised that resolution felt like such a deal breaker. It is probably adaption from switching to 4k panels at work and at home. Driving higher resolution at 90hz will probably take a couple of gfx card generations. I hope your early adoption tax gives it enough momentum to see what a 2nd or 3rd generation product looks like.
It could almost be a stereotype.
The guy that I'm thinking of had turned his bonus cheque into something fast and sporty. After a minor scrape with a truck he had blamed the car, the road and the other driver. A week later when lost it at a roundabout he didn't admit the reason straight away - but after a few beers it was gently teased out of him that it was just too much power for his level of skill. He traded it in for something much slower.
Was the guy a telecoms guy in the UK - or does the Lotus on a roundabout thing really keep happening?
Some of those people are cheating - some of them are not. If the spot that you were creeping towards is popular then people will blind fire at it anyway. There many be far more cases when the person blind firing doesn't hit anything - but nobody will see those (unless they happen to be spectating them). The only cases that people see are the rare occasions that it works - and without any way to determine the sample size it looks like clairvoyance (or cheating).
It's the same effect as the stock scam: pick 1024 people and tell 512 that a stock will go up on a day, and the other 512 that it will go down. Drop anyone that gets a false predication and repeat ten times until some sucker thinks that you have a gift for picking stocks.
Valve makes some serious cash from it?
Was about to post that it still works for me on BBB, but I use 8.8.8.8.8 so I guess that it is why.
What storm? They're a consultancy firm in the Swedish IT industry. They will graze until it is time to retire. They have adapted perfectly to their niche in the ecosystem, which is probably decorated with reasonable quality coffee and cinamon buns.