There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. I guess you believed the polls before Trump's election, too.
“There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. I guess you believed the polls before Trump’s election, too.”
You realize, don’t you, that when you believe that sex offenders can never stop sex offending, that you too are making a statistical statement? Yours, however, must not be a “damned statistic.”
The difference between us is that your statistical assumption comes with no evidence to support it. There is some solid evidence to support mine.
BTW, I’m pretty agnostic about most political polls. But they are considerably different than the studies I cited, which were based on measured reincarceration rates, not opinions.