Thread: Wtf

Originally Posted by Sidney

How many times with the wet bus ticket? What does "many instances where too much leniency is given" actually mean. Do you know the facts of the cases? Have you read the cases? Have you read comparable cases and enough of them to have a statistical appreciation of whether this one is a "wet bus ticket" or not?

Given that the only ones that you hear about are the "wet bus tickets" do you think your perception is close to the reality? You keep using the wet bus tickets as the basis for your argument, which is of course statistically non-relavent... but it sells newspapers...

The whole tougher sentencing mentality, is an easy sell if you can create fear.... its a simplistic response and the perception that it creates may not be the reality....

You now seem to have no grasp on the word some, and are completely ignoring the main point of my argument. Bloody one eyed Cantabrian

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There are a lot of sensational statistics in that linked document where they are making something out of what should be, and statistically is, correct and expected. The old '50% of people in this country are below average' scenario. Again they are comparing figures of a relatively prosperous time with a tough economic time and not making any allowance for this. Statistically this has always been a link between the two yet no weighting has been applied, that is how the British provided labour for the West Island.

Nearly half (48%) underestimated the average sentence imposed
for rape, and nearly half (
47%) underestimated the average time a rapist serves in prison

And you accuse me of random statistics?