2009/12/22 'Dragon' Dave McKee <[email protected]>: > > Probably explained by: > > By 1994, the year of the last parliamentary vote, there were 565 > > probably *actually* meaning > > In 1994, the year of the last parliamentary vote, the most recent > information that parliment were going from said there were 565 > murders, but that was for the previous year. > > All another reason, coming back on topic, for the raw information to > be readily available - and, where available, original sources to be > cited (and linked to) in the damn article. >
It was the fact they were quoting homicides not murders (which are not at all the same thing) that particularly caught my eye. A larger figure but a less relevant one (to a discussion of the death penalty). I completely agree with your conclusions. In this case the raw figures are available (good) but not referenced (bad). My Society can do a lot about the former, but rather less about the latter. TheyDontCiteTheirSources being a rather harder site to write with current heuristics. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
