07-02-2015, 12:26 PM
(07-02-2015, 12:18 PM)GMDino Wrote: Really?
Anyway they said they omitted them because they were omitted from the meme they were talking about.
Now I have to question your reading comprehension because what they actually said was;
Quote:We should note that the United Kingdom includes Scotland and Northern Ireland, but the numbers in the meme appear to be based only on crime in England and Wales, which are calculated separately.
They "appear" to be? How so, care to explain how that is? Probably not because, as I already stated that reason sounds like a steaming cup of horse shit. Soooo, my question stands.
Quote:So they didn't want to add anything if it wasn't already added.
As they said (and I'm sure you read) they knew it would add to the crimes...but since those weren't counted in the first place to make the claim why count them now?
Probably because they have no way of knowing if they were already counted or not. Now, common sense would suggest that when you compare the US and UK you would use all of the US and UK. I think they should have omitted the statistics from Chicago, Baltimor and New York because I think they didn't include them in the comparison based on a very careful study of the numbers involved. Oh, and they also omitted the entire state of Alaska, I just decided that as well.
