Over 40% increase in rapes and domestic violence is shocking.
Huffers1010 on
Recently there was a thread about a 19% increase in sexual assaults on trains in Scotland (or something close to that). While nobody wants to be unsympathetic to anyone who’s had that happen, what it didn’t say was that this represented an increase from 200 to 238 in the context of many tens of millions of passenger journeys. It was noise in the numbers, not (probably) representing anything other than random chance.
Statistics are complicated things and people like to make headlines. Do we know what the actual numbers are behind this particular headline?
ClassicPooka on
Obviously the perpetrators have not been burnt out of their homes yet.
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Over 40% increase in rapes and domestic violence is shocking.
Recently there was a thread about a 19% increase in sexual assaults on trains in Scotland (or something close to that). While nobody wants to be unsympathetic to anyone who’s had that happen, what it didn’t say was that this represented an increase from 200 to 238 in the context of many tens of millions of passenger journeys. It was noise in the numbers, not (probably) representing anything other than random chance.
Statistics are complicated things and people like to make headlines. Do we know what the actual numbers are behind this particular headline?
Obviously the perpetrators have not been burnt out of their homes yet.