--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > For example, in another post akasha complains that > > > only violent crime statistics were studied > > > > Not a complaint, just an observation. > > > > > < and > > > expresses suspicion that the researchers left out > > > statistics on nonviolent crime because they didn't > > > demonstrate any effect. > > > > Yes, thats not a high crime on their part. If they found non violent > > crimes went down dramatically, I am confident the summary of the > > study would highlight non-violent crimes. Don't you? > > They wouldn't have found that nonviolent crimes went > down dramatically because they weren't looking at > nonviolent crime statistics because the study was on > violent crime only. > > <duh> > > Really? Thats how > > analysis under pressure works. Its what happens in the real world. > > People make their best case. Not a high crime. But one needs to be > > aware that the researchers here, as in many other places, had > > incentives to look for answers that met sponsors desires and > > expecatations. > > For God's sake, they *predicted* that violent > crime would drop by 20 percent when they announced > the demonstration project. This is the TMO, > remember? TM True Believer researchers. They > weren't trying to please sponsors, they were out to > confirm their own convictions. > > > No different from 1000's of corporate analysts. And > > 100's of non-profit foundation analysts. But maybe you have to have > > "been there" in various situations and cases to understand this. > > It isn't a matter of *understanding* it, it's a > GIVEN. Good *grief*, akasha. You're just not > paying attention. > > They announced, with great fanfare, that the project > would demonstrate a 20 percent drop in violent crime. > They announced the protocol of the study that was > going to prove it beforehand. > > Can you *imagine* the horselaughs if they'd turned > around and used nonviolent crime because the stats > were better? Get real! > > They never even considered looking at nonviolent > crime. That isn't what they were out to prove.
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