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Post by Funk Monk on Jan 14, 2007 6:39:07 GMT -5
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Post by drooperdoo on Jan 15, 2007 15:16:33 GMT -5
Funk, There are inherent statistical flaws with the composites. For Cologne, Germany, for example, they say that 90% of the city is German with only 10% being foreign. Of those "foreigners," the majority used to be Turkish, but in recent decades the newest immigrants are Eastern Europeans and Balkanites. So the composite should have relied on 9 German faces and only one "foreign" face. Yet when they show you the sample, they purposely overloaded it with dark, swarthy Turks and deceptively made the composite resemble an Anatolian far more than a Central European.  And they do this time and again in most of the cities--overloading "ethnic types" to skew the composite and artificially "darken" the face of the new Europe. They need to get their statistics in line, and use THAT as the basis for the composites. * For example, look at Lisbon. Of the ten or so faces they use for the composite, four are negroes. That's ridiculous. 40% of Portugal's population is not black. It's more like half of 1%. (And, yes, Lisbon--as the capital--would have more negroes than the rest of the nation--but nowhere near 40%. Probably less than 3%) So why overload the composite of 10 faces with four negro faces??? It's stuff like that that makes the composites lose credibility. |
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Post by Anodyne on Jan 15, 2007 17:46:44 GMT -5
* For example, look at Lisbon. Of the ten or so faces they use for the composite, four are negroes. That's ridiculous. 40% of Portugal's population is not black. It's more like half of 1%. (And, yes, Lisbon--as the capital--would have more negroes than the rest of the nation--but nowhere near 40%. Probably less than 3%) So why overload the composite of 10 faces with four negro faces??? It's stuff like that that makes the composites lose credibility. They used 25 faces. Five appear black. That would be 2o%, which seems very much higher then their numbers in the population. Wouldn't be surprised if they made 20% of the Portuguese population within the next generation. www.faceoftomorrow.com/city_downloads/City-Poster-A-lisboa.jpg |
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Post by Funk Monk on Jan 15, 2007 19:16:46 GMT -5
They had a "disclaimer" once where they said they had just taken pictures of random people, regardless of nationality, as even tourists could be potential contributors to the populations. So well, I don't think there's a hidden agenda.
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Post by kadu on Jan 17, 2007 19:12:12 GMT -5
* For example, look at Lisbon. Of the ten or so faces they use for the composite, four are negroes. That's ridiculous. 40% of Portugal's population is not black. It's more like half of 1%. (And, yes, Lisbon--as the capital--would have more negroes than the rest of the nation--but nowhere near 40%. Probably less than 3%) So why overload the composite of 10 faces with four negro faces??? It's stuff like that that makes the composites lose credibility. They used 25 faces. Five appear black. That would be 2o%, which seems very much higher then their numbers in the population. Wouldn't be surprised if they made 20% of the Portuguese population within the next generation. www.faceoftomorrow.com/city_downloads/City-Poster-A-lisboa.jpgThey wouldn't because blacks are confined to Lisbon, they didn't immigrate to other cities |
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