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<blockquote data-quote="aviator41" data-source="post: 2518046" data-attributes="member: 30309"><p>Reports like this always have the same way to make a point. the deal in percentages and 'how many times more likely' something is if certain criteria are met. those percentages are meaningless unless they are put into perspective. All those arguments are one sided. </p><p></p><p>If you had a village with two members and one got shot (by whomever - another villager, a stranger, didn't matter) you could say that 50% of this population has been killed by gun violence and all members of the village own guns. Numbers can be twisted to mean whatever you want.</p><p></p><p>100% of women who wear red dresses on sycamore street were murdered last year - don't wear red dresses. Doesn't tell you that there is only one female on the street, that the street only has one home etc, that she wasn't murdered at home, but at the movie theater. That the movie theater was in New York, but she lived in Wisconsin and was only on vacation. - see how easily twisted things get?</p><p></p><p>like my sig says (at the time of this writing) "60% of the time, it works every time. . "</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aviator41, post: 2518046, member: 30309"] Reports like this always have the same way to make a point. the deal in percentages and 'how many times more likely' something is if certain criteria are met. those percentages are meaningless unless they are put into perspective. All those arguments are one sided. If you had a village with two members and one got shot (by whomever - another villager, a stranger, didn't matter) you could say that 50% of this population has been killed by gun violence and all members of the village own guns. Numbers can be twisted to mean whatever you want. 100% of women who wear red dresses on sycamore street were murdered last year - don't wear red dresses. Doesn't tell you that there is only one female on the street, that the street only has one home etc, that she wasn't murdered at home, but at the movie theater. That the movie theater was in New York, but she lived in Wisconsin and was only on vacation. - see how easily twisted things get? like my sig says (at the time of this writing) "60% of the time, it works every time. . " [/QUOTE]
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