Why sites like Sleep Assualt are a bad idea

[tigermom]

BTW, forgot to mention I did take several courses in psychology/cognitive science, but that's not really the relevant field here. This is social sciences - it's a matter of knowing how to interpret statistics collected in research, not understanding the individual.

[karomesis]

Saying that race correlates to the level of crime is a simplistic reading of statistics, that was all I was saying. Being as there are so many other factors involved.

These methods are about as thorough as you can get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_statistics
and this
http://www.anthropic-principle.com/primer.html