> Does "right sort of people" sound ominous to you? YEP, exactly as bad as you think it is.)
But does it have good predictive value? Statistics don't care about individuals, and neither does the reality they describe. Are one's family's behaviours good predictors of one's own behaviours? I strongly suspect that the answer is a resounding YES. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, after all—at least not usually.
And shouldn't it be the responsibility of the outliers to demonstrate that they are, in fact, outliers, rather then the responsibility of the rest fo society to extend the benefit of the doubt to every last person who turns up to claim it?
But does it have good predictive value? Statistics don't care about individuals, and neither does the reality they describe. Are one's family's behaviours good predictors of one's own behaviours? I strongly suspect that the answer is a resounding YES. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, after all—at least not usually.
And shouldn't it be the responsibility of the outliers to demonstrate that they are, in fact, outliers, rather then the responsibility of the rest fo society to extend the benefit of the doubt to every last person who turns up to claim it?