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What does a journalist think when he writes something like "biggest spike in traffic death in 50 years"? The NYT even has a nice plot, that clearly shows that t
by yk 10y ago
What does a journalist think when he writes something like "biggest spike in traffic death in 50 years"? The NYT even has a nice plot, that clearly shows that there are two, perhaps three significant, spikes in traffic death, and overall traffic death were reduced to a third of the late seventies. I mean I just eyeball the plot, but to me it seems the story is that there is a plateau since ~2010.
- squeaky-clean 10y ago> After steady declines over the last four decades, highway fatalities last year recorded the largest annual percentage increase in 50 years. So I guess the title makes sense, but I think it's extremely misleading.
- pwg 10y agoIt is - and it is a title that is misleadingly designed to be "click bait".
- 88e282102ae2e5b 10y agoYes. It's just noise. But I guess it's hard to write a story about how nothing has changed in decades.
- kalleboo 10y ago"Think of all the clicks we're gonna get!"