>I hope everyone gets the point that you can drown a serious negative trend in a much larger set of unrelated data A single data point is not a trend. You have

>I hope everyone gets the point that you can drown a serious negative trend in a much larger set of unrelated data A single data point is not a trend. You have it completely backwards: just because there is violence in a particular state, doesn't mean the world is going to shit. >sensationalist trash Facts are sensationalist trash? As opposed to the flurry of articles lately telling us the world is ending?