Use this term when referring to statistics as a field of study. For collections of statistics use statistical data or a more specific term such as crime statistics.
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Americans are inundated with political polling results on a regular basis, and when actual elections are held, the results often deviate from the poll predictions. Why is that? I am not a social scientist, but I was exposed to the basics of polling...
by liberaldad2
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on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 10:22 AM PST
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I have read another article suggesting we not lose focus on Ukraine. I can't remember who. One of the quirks of Western Society at least, is that we grow up not realizing that actions and non-actions taken on the other side of the world can have a...
by Audreybeardsley
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 06:27 AM PST
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On September 27th, 1981, the first ever French TGV with passengers left Gare de Lyon in Paris on the way to the city of Lyon, reaching speeds of up to 260 kilometers per hour on its 400-kilometer journey. It marked a new era of train travel and train...
by Neon Neo
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 08:40 PM PST
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There exists a perception (stereotype?) of our online community as somewhat shielded from the problems of the real world. Yesterday I posted a list of questions along the lines of “have you ever been racially profiled?” or “have you been evicted?” This...
by kalmoth
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on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 10:13 AM PDT
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The very good news of the FBI’s crime stats report and CDC gun homicide report for 2022 have already been covered here, in the Good News Roundup and elsewhere, and it’s news worth celebrating: 6% reduction in gun homicides in one year! This follows two...
by Crashing Vor
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 06:04 PM PDT
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In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of the Enterprise travels back in time and Kirk has to sell his antique eyeglasses to get some much needed 20th century money. He’s offered $100 and asks “Is that a lot?” It’s played for laughs, but Kirk has...
by A Citizen
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 11:39 AM PDT
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"This is what they look like." The video below is a relatively unfiltered view of small towns with nearly-all-white populations, strung along a highway in Illinois. What's revealed might be surprising to some who have only seen such places from the...
by Walk In the Woods
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on Thu Mar 23, 2023 at 07:54 PM PDT
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Violent crime in Australia is gradually decreasing. This is good. Except among Indigenous people. Rates of imprisonment Australia-wide are declining, which is also gratifying. But the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people incarcerated...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Feb 27, 2023 at 09:53 AM PST
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There's financial crimes, property crimes, political crimes, sexual crimes, crimes against the state like treason, sedition, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, bribery, etc. It's pure and simple speculation, just like when or even...
by Maxwells22
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on Tue Dec 27, 2022 at 01:56 PM PST
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When I first heard the quote: “ there’s Lies, and Damn Lies, and worst of all Statistics” (which didn’t actually originate with Mark Twain I just discovered. He thought he was quoting Disraeli — but there appears to have been many who expressed a...
by FormerGoper
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on Wed Nov 16, 2022 at 11:01 PM PST
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Reports indicate that the rate of hate crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community seems to be getting worse each day. Across the country, an incident of hate targeting the AAPI community occurs nearly every day. Several reports...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Jul 20, 2022 at 01:02 PM PDT
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Last Thursday, I wrote an article stating that the rate of deaths from COVID-19 among white Americans now exceeded those among Black or Latino Americans. The article drew from a report by The New York Times written by David Leonhardt which extrapolated...
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Jun 14, 2022 at 12:11 PM PDT
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I keep seeing comments to the effect of not believing some polls just because—specifically, polls that have asked Republicans/conservatives if they doubt that the 2020 election was decided fairly. Just this week, someone here literally said, “They’re...
by novapsyche
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on Wed Jun 08, 2022 at 08:04 AM PDT
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If you think numbers can’t kill, think again.
Mark Twain first used the�phrase lies, damned lies, and statistics� in 1907 to�describe�the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments. ...
by zoel
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on Thu Mar 31, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST.gov) March 16 release of “Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias within Artificial Intelligence” offers background and guidance [on a major source of risk relating] to the...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Mar 21, 2022 at 07:33 PM PDT
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According to America’s idiots, there’s no reason to take serious precautions against a worldwide pandemic that has killed millions of people because the “survival rate” is high. They cite made-up statistics generally ranging from 99% to 99.9997%. Of...
by Perlinator
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on Sat Mar 05, 2022 at 01:00 PM PST
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This is just a reminder that some of the numbers being bandied about about this pandemic might need a few correction factors. Mostly these make alarmists even more right. One thing often mentioned is a comparison between total excess deaths and...
by Groundnut
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on Mon Jan 17, 2022 at 06:10 AM PST
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Scott Davison is the CEO of OneAmerica, an Indianapolis-based life insurance company founded in the 19th century. To start the new year, Davison told the audience of an online news conference that “We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jan 05, 2022 at 11:06 AM PST
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It’s no surprise that hate crimes are increasing at alarming rates across the country. Reports throughout the year have consistently noted increases in faith-, race-, and identity-based crimes nationwide. According to data compiled by the FBI, the...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Dec 10, 2021 at 08:02 AM PST
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DeathSantis takes YET ANOTHER victory lap over his Covid-19 response. Compares Florida to Vermont!?! It’s become routine. Every time there is a dip in Florida’s Covid-19 cases, our self-absorbed governor and hopeful 2024 ‘daddy’s best boy’ Ron DeSantis can’t resist patting himself on the back. In an interview last Sunday, he gave us his latest take:...
by databob
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on Fri Nov 26, 2021 at 04:36 PM PST
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