Crime isn’t at a 20-year high, but concern about it is. Partly prospect theory (getting worse/better matters, not just overall level), and part reminds me that the US murder rate was higher in the 1980s but people thought it was higher in the ‘90s. In the ‘90s, more murder on TV.https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1410904505340895233 …
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In SF's case, a 4-year spike in drug overdoses is concerning of course, but the current scientific consensus around drug use like this is that it's a downstream effect of other factors; poor economic conditions leading to self-medication combined with an easily accessible drug...
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...like fentanyl, is a more nuanced take on this than "your data is wrong because it doesn't address this very specific and narrow dataset"
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Most don't know how to curate the data let alone interpret it. It's why simple graphs can be the most damning and easiest source of propaganda. And clearly John bot here is of the sense to just believe whatever chart someone slaps in front of him
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