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It describes a process in which crime reporting progressively gets further from the ground truth over time. This isn't new.
by hx8 3y ago
It describes a process in which crime reporting progressively gets further from the ground truth over time. This isn't new.
- jeremyjh 3y agoAll of those incentives were in play 50 years ago. You may as well say you just don't like statistics that you disagree with.
- hx8 3y agoAs discussed in the bullet points, those incentives create a sort of natural selection which changes how the statistics are reported over time. It's not like we are measuring length or temperature. The data has a degree of human subjectivity when being recorded. It seems normal for that subjectivity to shift over time, especially when we are taking about different humans over timespans of decades.