Most experts will not give simple answers to simple questions because they see the question itself as ill-posed. Theses could be written about "Is crime up or d

Most experts will not give simple answers to simple questions because they see the question itself as ill-posed. Theses could be written about "Is crime up or down?" GP's claim is that this has a simple answer that can be checked. The bigger issue isn't whether a dataset is statistically valid but which data would even be relevant to a particular underspecified and vague question.