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Originally Posted by MiniMatt
Let me get this straight - you're dismissing crime statistics and birth statistics as lies? And you're trumpeting your own perception as more reliable indicator of crime statistics across the nation and more reliable than hospital records of births?
Hell, don't get me wrong, statistics can be massaged for sure, but given the question "how many murders were there in year X" or how many pregnancies per thousand individuals in the 13-19 bracket were there in year Y" are you seriously suggesting to me that official figures are wrong and you, you are the correct source of such information?
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I've noticed you've taken to believing the statistics but also stating that they are "massaged"...surely this is a contradiction as anything which has been "massaged" or altered to suit the required needs is no longer factual. Only the raw data is ever factual...and this is never presented!
Statistics are always skewed and manipulated to suit the role which they are being presented for. Extrapolation is commonly used when displaying statistics on things like knife crime etc and doesn't reflect true information in the slightest.
Not to mention that when you see a headline saying "x thousands of cars were stolen last year" or something along those lines, they obtain this information from the individual police forces and often not all of the forces reply to the information request so they effectively guess at how many cars were stolen in a particular area...be it averaging over the region or what not.
I'm not disputing that there are more of less teenage prenancies at present than there were in the past - largely I think that the media is to blame as this stuff is widely broadcast where as 40 years ago I doubt a teenage prenancy would have made national use, if even local news!
You have talked about the Daily Mail esque and education etc etc, but surely thinking that the statistics presented are gospel is almost as bad?