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All of those incentives were in play 50 years ago. You may as well say you just don't like statistics that you disagree with.
by jeremyjh 3y ago
All 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.