In other words, a sample size this tiny simply cannot be understood to tell us anything about what's going on at the population level. (Using a standard confident interval calculator, that 16% of White women, based on a sample of 69, yields a confidence interval of +/- 9%.) It’s irresponsible, and it’s inadvertently (I assume) feeding White supremacist propaganda. At best these numbers are estimated with very large standard errors. These population numbers should not be on this table. The most important bottom line is that the BJS should not report extrapolations to the whole population from samples this small. I can’t believe we’re talking about this.
