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Crime statistics are on the decline. It's harder to tell whether actual crime is on the decline.
by nradov 5mo ago
Crime statistics are on the decline. It's harder to tell whether actual crime is on the decline.
- awesome_dude 5mo agoAnecdata isn't going to get us any closer. Statistics gathered the way the are is all we have
- nradov 5mo agoAre the statistics accurate? Jeff Bezos said, "I have a saying, which is when the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right." https://lexfridman.com/jeff-bezos-transcript/#chapter6_amazon https://lexfridman.com/jeff-bezos-transcript/#chapter6_amazo...
- awesome_dude 5mo agoI have a saying - if you think the data is bad because it doesn't match your narrative, go out and prove you have better data collection methods. Anecdata is well known to be problematic.
- philwelch 5mo ago> Anecdata is well known to be problematic. Show me the data that backs that claim.
- awesome_dude 5mo agoIt's always been that way for me... is that not enough, you want actual data?
- hilariously 5mo agoIf its not true, then my anecdote that its true should suffice to make it true, no data required Q.E.D.
- verisimi 5mo agoBut.... you can get statistics on anything you like, if you are prepared to fund (or defund) them. If you pay to see the relation between crime and how many cats there are in a neighbourhood, you can get that! Ie statistics themselves are part of the game.
- awesome_dude 5mo agoSo, we believe nothing? Or, we demand evidence that what you assert about this set of statistics is accurate
- verisimi 5mo agoGiven that you can just throw money at the solution you want to engineer, and create the illusion of science, perhaps believing nothing is a better position to be in. At least you're not buying into what is essentially just another avenue of corporate or governance marketing. And sorry for bringing information to your attention. Just wait till you hear about how corporates fund law.
- awesome_dude 5mo agoHow do we know that your cynicism isn't funded by corporates in an attempt to undermine the real science?
- verisimi 5mo agoYou don't. How do you know your trust in corporates isn't an understandably conditioned response, given 13+ years of education?
- awesome_dude 5mo agoThat's weird - where can you point to me having any such trust?