Good questions. I may be wrong to use the word "offensive", but I'm equally bothered by the treatment of the questions on crime. Sometimes people are simply w

Good questions. I may be wrong to use the word "offensive", but I'm equally bothered by the treatment of the questions on crime. Sometimes people are simply wrong, and sometimes they are answering the question they think you are asking, or even the question they want you to be asking. So if you were to narrow it down to "According to official statistics has the US murder rate increased or decreased on a national level" you might get a different answer than "Is violent crime increasing?" even if you think the questions are the same. It's not that I think that survey answers are always right, it's that I think the interesting story is about where and why the answers differ from the statistics. My offense is that the the author seems uninterested in this angle, and just keeps bludgeoning the reader with the claim that the respondees are wrong. On the crime question, someone recently pointed out this interesting article from a decade ago regarding the drop in the murder rate in Chicago: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/chicago-crime-statistics/chicago-crime-rates/ https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/chicago-crime-st.... No, I don't think this means the "feels" are always right, but I do think this shows the degree of depth at which we should be talking about the issues. Edit: So I'm not totally negative, here's an example of an article parallel to the submission that I think does a better job: https://apnews.com/article/economy-inflation-prices-jobs-income-recession-unemployment-e9e96643d8a1eb3ab2f57810219b8324 https://apnews.com/article/economy-inflation-prices-jobs-inc...