Quote Originally Posted by Bjauck View Post
I am interested to how you can discern the ethnicity of the parties referred to in media reports. Joe Bloggs could be any race. Your Getty estimation may be too low. Also there is the possibility of bias-confirmation. A Maori sounding name stays registered in your memory as bias-confirmation. Perhaps your assertion relies just on those reports with a photo? They are Just a couple of possible disclaimers to append to your empirical claim.


Also interesting but jut about impossible to know would be whether or not fraud cases involving Maori are more likely to be reported and to make it to court, compared with fraud cases involving non-Maori.
To use fictitious names;

Joe Moananui Bloggs most likely is Maori.
Tame Potae Iti is Maori.
William Jones is presumed non Maori, unless l know him.