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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by IanCal on Friday March 23, 2018 @04:10AM (#16655992)
Those numbers are all available. Germany's population is very stable and 2001-2003 changed by 0.2% based on world bank figures.

> If it the trend was to increase by 30% but dropped afterwards to 20% then again it has worked in some way.

Only of you have some real reason to expect the number to increase by 30%. Just looking at a trend is not enough.

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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by martimarkov on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:21AM (#16656322)
Firstly, The entire paper is guesswork. There are no official numbers to support the fact that legalising prostitution increases the victim count. I just finished reading it and they even in the beginning state that they don’t have the data.

Secondly, I was just making a point that in these kinds of researches a % value is IMO a better measurement

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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by jamespo on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:56AM (#16656448)
the original statement "legalization is the only answer to the problem" is similarly guesswork then
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