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A number of people in the linked thread point out that Sardinia has a very low crime rate. However, the relevant metric is crime rate decades ago -- Yvonne Calm
by VintageCool 5y ago
A number of people in the linked thread point out that Sardinia has a very low crime rate. However, the relevant metric is crime rate decades ago -- Yvonne Calment is imputed to have committed this fraud starting in 1934.
70 years ago, Sardinia had a reputation for banditry, sheep rustling (which turned to kidnapping), vendettas, and resistance to the State. The island does fit the pattern, despite having mellowed out to an extremely low crime rate today.
- 11235813213455 5y agoyea, similar to their northern neighbor of Corsica, they can be a little bit more nationalist and defensive, understandable for islanders, and overall very pacifists
- WastingMyTime89 5y ago> Yvonne Calment is imputed to have committed this fraud starting in 1934. But France as one of the global powers has a very low crime rate in the 30s and the Calments are notable from their region not random unknown. If you think about it, the whole thing doesn't make much sense. Yvonne Calment should somehow have decided to replace her mother for sixty years including twenty while her husband was still alive for unclear reasons (a far fetched motive involving taxes was only found after Zay started pushing his theory) successfuly fooling the French state. The whole thing doesn't make any sense. I don't understand how Zay was published (I mean, I do, it took him a decade to find a bad enough journal but it's sad) and I don't know why serious people are wasting their time arguing with him. At this point, I just wish the genetic analysis were done to close the whole thing.
- gpderetta 5y agoI made that comment. Again, while I might agree with the conjecture, there are warning signs of botched data extraction, so it is a case of GIGO.