Comments on: Caution about rape figures http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/04/11/caution-about-rape-figures/ "crass, boorish and more a bruiser than blogger" - Alex Wilcock Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:38:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: MatGB http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/04/11/caution-about-rape-figures/#comment-1882 MatGB Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:51:41 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/?p=374#comment-1882 I thank you sir. Was going to post this (if I could get a more reasoned analysis with stats), but have had a busy week so didn't. Statistics of small numbers, combined with a number taken without reference to the rest of the figures, and no trend analysis. Utterly useless panic mongering, again. At that lever, it's all individual cases, not a statistic worth analysing, and a far more important figure would be cautions:charges:reported, as from what I here the latter two are up substantially as well. I thank you sir. Was going to post this (if I could get a more reasoned analysis with stats), but have had a busy week so didn’t.

Statistics of small numbers, combined with a number taken without reference to the rest of the figures, and no trend analysis. Utterly useless panic mongering, again.

At that lever, it’s all individual cases, not a statistic worth analysing, and a far more important figure would be cautions:charges:reported, as from what I here the latter two are up substantially as well.

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