Thursday, February 19, 2009



Says the report:








Flippin' Yank said...

Can you imagine if those Chavs, or Neds as you call them there, got a hold of guns?!?!? Thank goodness for gun control.

I find it ironic that Belfast is pegged as one of the safest cities in the world despite its long violent history. At least when they kill people it's for a reason, not random like in the U.S.

David T. Macknet said...

Oh, God, here I am defending the Weegies. Sigh.

A rise of 34% of next-to-nothing is still f-all next to nothing. Try living in Southern California.

Statistics ... sound like they're saying something when they're really just lying. Awfully.

If you take the population of Glasgow (even extending it out to the not-really-Glasgow but we'll suck it into the Council area of 2.4 million people), you get, times 100K people, a total change in the number of murders of from to 38 people to 50 people. When you run the Standard Deviation on that, it's not statistically significant.

There are Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.

F'ing liars.

Looking at the real numbers, per capita, of murders ... well, that might tell us something. But looking at them in terms of a percentage rise is not saying anything whatsoever.

That said, I do see an awfully large number of people with the trademark Glaswegian knife-cut to the face.