2 men shot - confrontation at campground
2 men shot during early-morning confrontation at campground: LINK
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Thanks for the link, Francesca. Statistics have always fascinated me and I read the article. I’ve taken statistics classes but I only know enough to be dangerous.:) But I did learn how hard it is to make a truly good study and how easy it is to make a biased or fraudulent one. Thus I view all statistics from any source with a jaundiced eye unless I’ve managed to get some of the hard data to show otherwise. My dad’s retort to someone who threw statistics at him was “figures lie and liars figure”. I never gave him credit for how smart he really was until I learned more about it.
In that WSJ report one group could claim the availability of guns is the core problem. Another might claim the high percentage of Native Americans is, the majority of rape victims are Native American. The disparity between the population of men vs women, the remoteness and scarcity of law enforcement, and so on. The point being that someone with an agenda can come up with a study to support it. Granted, the report isn’t a study, merely statistics. But it’s the sort of thing that generates studies. And we poor peons have to try to sort out the wheat from the chaff.
In that WSJ report one group could claim the availability of guns is the core problem. Another might claim the high percentage of Native Americans is, the majority of rape victims are Native American. The disparity between the population of men vs women, the remoteness and scarcity of law enforcement, and so on. The point being that someone with an agenda can come up with a study to support it. Granted, the report isn’t a study, merely statistics. But it’s the sort of thing that generates studies. And we poor peons have to try to sort out the wheat from the chaff.
