Comments on: Grevious misuse of statistics http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/10/23/grevous-misuse-of-statistics/ A Website Dedicated to Information/Data Quality Disasters from Around the World Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daragh O Brien http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/10/23/grevous-misuse-of-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Daragh O Brien Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:54:47 +0000 http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/10/23/grevous-misuse-of-statistics/#comment-148 Hmm... that classification kind of sounds like someone being 'slightly pregnant'. Interesting that the police went back and recategorised the statistics though; I'm left with two questions: 1) Why were the statistics 'fudged' on the basis of the scale of injury/damage in the first place (politics perhaps?) 2) Why are they now being restated as more serious crimes (manpower and budgets for the noble plod perhaps?) Nice catch Keith. Hmm… that classification kind of sounds like someone being ‘slightly pregnant’. Interesting that the police went back and recategorised the statistics though; I’m left with two questions:

1) Why were the statistics ‘fudged’ on the basis of the scale of injury/damage in the first place (politics perhaps?)
2) Why are they now being restated as more serious crimes (manpower and budgets for the noble plod perhaps?)

Nice catch Keith.

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