Friday, November 02, 2018

A Numbers Game

Fewer children killed by guns in states with strict gun laws, finds Stanford study [More]
But then they say:
States that have more laws restricting youth access to guns have lower rates of child and teen deaths from shootings...
Numbers and rates are two very different things. One death in a low population area can register as a higher rate than multiple deaths in a high population area.

They keep pulling this deceptive crap and the "journalists" are either too dumb to grok it or too corrupt to point it out.

Seeing as how "Lisa M. Krieger is a science writer at The Mercury News" who "graduated from Duke University with a degree in biology," that could depend on whether she got a B.A. or a B.S.

1 comment:

Ed said...

B.A. Biology vs. B.S. Biology?
B.A.requires modern foreign language proficiency.
B.S requires more math and physics training.
So, what do you call the degree that has both?
Obtaining a B.A. does not preclude you from studying math and physics, nor does a B.S. preclude you from being proficient in a modern foreign language.

https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/5bgsfm/ba_versus_bs/