Back to episode — Episode 1021 Scott Adams - Lying Statistics, Trump Polls Plummet, Democrat Strategy Debacle, BLM
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← Previous segment →ugh about me. Let's talk about the world. Is the world still there? All right, here are some things for you to think about. Ninety percent of the people who are killed by police are men. Is that proof of sexism? Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Now I just put that out there to cause trouble. Why is it only men who are getting killed by police? It's proof of sexism, isn't it? Now when you say, "Uh, Scott, no, because the men are committing the crimes," I say to you, how sexist of you to say that. I just put that out there to cause trouble.
Here's some more trouble-causing statistics. Have you noticed that we humans can't calculate anything correctly? And we can't calculate anything correctly. We don't know how many people are going to die from the virus. We don't know how many people died from the regular flu. We don't know what the unemployment rate really is, because even that got revised. So that got revised up from what we thought was great, great news to just pretty good news. The unemployment got corrected up to 16.3 percent, and Black unemployment is the highest in more than 10 years, according to Camala Harris, and Latino unemployment is 17.6. Yikes. So as Kamala Harris is saying, that's nothing to celebrate about. But of course nobody is celebrating the absolute number. Do you think anybody was celebrating the absolute number? No. I think they were celebrating the change. I think there was celebration for the direction, celebration for the hoped-for future. But it's one more example of how we humans, we should just give up on numbers. We should just give up on trying to calculate anything, because we always do it wrong. Or if we do it right, the other side doesn't believe it. It just doesn't make any difference if you've got good numbers or bad.
Here's some more numbers. So according to Rasmussen, and I believe that's coming out any moment now, back in 2016 this was the opinion. All right, so in 2016, 38 percent of voters thought most Black Americans were treated unfairly by the police. So it was 38 in 2016. Today it's 51. It went from 38 thought Black Americans were treated unfairly by the police to 51 during Trump's administration. What changed? What changed? Was it the data? Did the data change? No, I'll bet not. I mean, not in three yea
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rs, right? I don't think the data changed. I think what changed was the persuasion. What you saw on television. Who was the president? You know, how many stories were run of a certain type? What did social media do? So without the data changing at all, I mean I haven't even looked at the data, but I don't think it got worse between 2016 and 2019, did it? Or 2020. It didn't get worse. I mean if it…
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