Not sure what you are trying to say - my point was that ie the question "is crime up or down" is not a yes/no answer. Depending on the input, you can easily cre

Not sure what you are trying to say - my point was that ie the question "is crime up or down" is not a yes/no answer. Depending on the input, you can easily create a statistic pointing in any direction. I think abtinf elaborated better on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628198 My personal highpoint in using statistical methods was probably implementing an analysis of variance for thousands of lab values (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_variance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_variance).