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U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoYou can’t just remove cities from statistics for better numbers
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoUh, well, you can, and do, remove clear outliers in other statistical sets.
minus-square@BURNlink3•1 year agoNo, you normalize the data to account for the higher density of people. You can’t just ignore the 3 largest cities because they have more people or higher crime rates.
minus-square@AA5Blink1•1 year agoSure, we obviously have wrong data for 19 yo. Let’s just remove it from the data. And those three cities, clear outliers, 3 cities won’t affect the data noticeably anyway
You can’t just remove cities from statistics for better numbers
Uh, well, you can, and do, remove clear outliers in other statistical sets.
No, you normalize the data to account for the higher density of people.
You can’t just ignore the 3 largest cities because they have more people or higher crime rates.
Sure, we obviously have wrong data for 19 yo. Let’s just remove it from the data. And those three cities, clear outliers, 3 cities won’t affect the data noticeably anyway