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Article #3547meaningless statistics
From: Nathaniel McIntosh
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 13:53
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 13:53
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>In article <NEWTNews.27247.782625008.woolfson@woolfson.unicom.net> Eric Woolfson <woolf@unicom.net> writes: > Well, let's look at the figures: > > 12 years before the gun ban - 58 robberies > 12 years since the gun ban - 35 robberies > > 12 years before the gun ban - 227 burglaries > 12 years since the gun ban - 139 burglaries > > Source: Chief of Police George Incledon, quoted in > an AP article on the 12 anniversary of the Morton > Grove gun ban Once again, raw numbers without adjusting for demographics. Depending on the population of Morton Grove, these numbers could mean almost anything. Does Morton Grove have more old people now than 12 years ago? More young people? It's a wonder that anyone can form an opinion at all. Nat -- Nathaniel McIntosh | Department of Computer Science mcintosh@cs.rice.edu | Rice University, P.O. Box 1892 713-527-8101 x2740 | Houston, Texas 77251 USA
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b82c,f712f68171682c70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b82c,public X-Google-Thread: 103916,f712f68171682c70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public X-Google-Thread: 104ad1,faf138bd852a6ce6 X-Google-Attributes: gid104ad1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-20 07:00:16 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.uh.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news!mcintosh From: mcintosh@rice.edu (Nathaniel McIntosh) Newsgroups: tx.general,dfw.general,austin.general Subject: meaningless statistics Date: 20 Oct 1994 13:53:09 GMT Organization: Rice University Lines: 27 Distribution: tx Message-ID: <MCINTOSH.94Oct20085309@athene.rice.edu> References: <383otf$mi0@zeus.fasttax.com> <NEWTNews.27247.782625008.woolfson@woolfson.unicom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: athene.cs.rice.edu In-reply-to: Eric Woolfson's message of Wed, 19 Oct 94 20:42:17 PDT