Comments on: Colour Conscious Justice: Towards a Colour Blind Justice System http://www.thecourt.ca/2008/08/12/colour-conscious-justice-towards-a-colour-blind-justice-system-2/ The Court is the online resource for data and debate about the Supreme Court of Canada. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:34:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zeppo http://www.thecourt.ca/2008/08/12/colour-conscious-justice-towards-a-colour-blind-justice-system-2/comment-page-1/#comment-86809 Zeppo Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:33:48 +0000 http://www.thecourt.ca/2008/08/12/colour-conscious-justice-towards-a-colour-blind-justice-system-2/#comment-86809 I'm still examining the article and data but the first thing that pops in to my head is that the article presents a number of correlants but then asks a leading question regarding causation, which cannot be deduced from the statistics alone. Correlation does not demonstrate causation as any mathematician will tell you. Determination of causation would require a much more detailed study, very likely involving many specific individuals as well as overall statistics. As far as I can see the information presented cannot be used to deduce that the justice system is not colour blind. It cannot be used to deduce that the justice system is colour blind either. Without further study the information presented cannot answer this question at all. I’m still examining the article and data but the first thing that pops in to my head is that the article presents a number of correlants but then asks a leading question regarding causation, which cannot be deduced from the statistics alone. Correlation does not demonstrate causation as any mathematician will tell you. Determination of causation would require a much more detailed study, very likely involving many specific individuals as well as overall statistics.

As far as I can see the information presented cannot be used to deduce that the justice system is not colour blind. It cannot be used to deduce that the justice system is colour blind either. Without further study the information presented cannot answer this question at all.

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