Tuesday, June 17, 2014

How myths begin

Not on line yet, this appears on page 3 of today's DomPost:


This mixes two sets of statistics with a qualification in tiny print.

The left and right statistics are official data from Police and CYF.

The one in the middle is from a self-selecting poll.

Whether the ethnic proportions relate to the poll or official data isn't made clear.

But it won't be long before someone conflates the two.

(Even the call-out rate  to family violence incidents is wrong based on the number given:
525,600/87,000 = 6.)

1 comment:

Brendan McNeill said...

Is being selectively truthful, the same as being selectively violent?