NYT is constantly reaching for new heights in bad statistics. Let's check out the newest contender: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/opinion/sunday/to-stop-crime-hand-over-cash.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 …
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"Police...told us this startling fact: An estimated 70% of shootings and homicides in Richmond in 2009 were caused by just 17 individuals"
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3/n SHOCKING! And how many homicides were there in Richmond? We don't know. But we do know what the rate was 2 years earlier.
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4/n "[2007]...saw a total of 47 homicides. In some neighborhoods, gunfire was almost a daily event."
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5/n If the murder rate was the same in 2009, then the murderer-iest 17 of the murderers would have committed 70% of 47 = 33 homicides.
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6/n Seventeen super ultramurderers committing 33 homicides! Why, that's, uh...seventeen committing two, and one committing one. Wow.
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8/7 uh I meant 16 committing 2, 1 committing 1, obv!
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