> More like: "In a political context gathering data is not at all a guaranteed way to get further to the truth." It's not guaranteed, no. But it's the only way

> More like: "In a political context gathering data is not at all a guaranteed way to get further to the truth." It's not guaranteed, no. But it's the only way we have any hope of it. > An current example from Germany right now: There's a part of the country that's in uproar because of new immigrants that came in 2015. Some people felt threatened and demanded more police in public spaces were immigrant youth gathers. So more police is present at those public spaces. Naturally this resulted in them being aware of more violent events (mostly groups of immigrant kids scuffling), which made the immigrant share of violent crimes double, and people feel "rightfully" afraid, as the stats now proof their suspicions! But the reality of course is that German kids have fights in public, too; police just didn't take note and so those fights don't end up in the data gathered. Is that actually true, though? I'm not familiar with the figures, but it's not unreasonable to imagine there may genuinely be more violent incidents among migrants from a war torn region like that. There were certainly serious cultural assimilation problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaults_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaul...