Month: October 2015

It’s more dangerous to be black than to be a cop

2015-10-04

I heard this somewhere recently and it made me go, really? So I thought I would double check. Indeed, one is more at risk to be murdered as a black person in America than as a police officer. For 2013 and 2014 I get an average of about 80 officers killed on duty per year…
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“And they made a chart with no Y-axis!”

2015-10-02

I’m a stickler for the honest presentation of data. Too many people, it seems me, just don’t care. I mean, it is easier to just make numbers up and share a picture on facebook if it supports your ideological position. When it comes to data analysis, I didn’t expect to find an ally in late-night…
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