Message: "Never trust statistics!"

Never trust statistics!

by Anneza

9/8/2006, 1:14 AM

But this article on the top names for criminals in Liverpool gave me lots of giggles:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/08/ncriminals08.xml

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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)

9/8/2006, 10:48 AM

Part of the reason one should take this with a grain of salt is that it isn't clear from the newspaper report whether they actually counted separate criminals or just separate police reports. If it's the latter, one person with multiple arrests could really skew the statistics.

- Noa +1

9/8/2006, 4:06 AM

Oh, lol.

This is great. I was really surprised by Gaynor (how did a name I must have heard of no more than once, if that, get given to enough criminals to show up on those statistics? Ah well, it must be common in Liverpool though) Anyway, that was... interesting. Ha.

- Anneza

9/10/2006, 11:15 PM

I would guess it's probably a question of social class, at least in the female list. The men, as you might expect, could be anything from vagrants to minor royalty! Except for Lee, who is more likely to come from lower down the social ladder - but don't tell my nephew!

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