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Re:SF's crime debate turns nasty by throwaway894345 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:19AM (#27761405)
Hmm, interesting. Any idea how the picture looks at the 5-year or 10-year trend (year over year clouds just be an anomaly)? What about the degree of poverty (we could have fewer poor people but they could be getting poorer)?
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Re:SF's crime debate turns nasty by AlexTWithBeard on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:34AM (#27761573)
From [2] it looks like poverty has been going up and down staying within 10-15% range for the past 50 years.

I'm sure it's possible to construct a measure which will show that poverty went up - as it's equally possible to show the opposite - but either will mostly likely be overfitting, i. e. hand-picking data to prove the desired point.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

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Re:SF's crime debate turns nasty by throwaway894345 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:31PM (#27767304)
To be clear I’m not trying to construct anything; I’m just expressing a curiosity.
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