Thursday, December 17, 2009
Math class is hard
A little feature on AOL's portal supposedly shows the 15 most dangerous Zip codes in America for property crime. Unfortunately, 5 of the 15 "neighborhoods" aren't neighborhoods at all. They are places where almost nobody lives: industrial zones between freeways, wilderness areas, unused sections of military bases. It's easy to get a high per-capita crime rate when there are only a handful of capitas around! Didn't anyone even consider this before writing up the "study" and then writing up the "news" article?
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