Clarification needed Re: [lbo-talk] How to Play Dumb with Statistics (How's It Feel)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Apr 18 10:30:10 PDT 2003


"ChrisD(RJ)" wrote:
>
> > >
> >Seriously, what's the likely cause? Murders in Russia are almost always
> >domestic violent (guy gets drunk, has argument with wife, stabs her with
> >kitchen knife, doesn't remember it the next morning).
>
> something seriously wrong with that!
> ---
> Russia has a huge domestic violence problem, esp. in villages. Almost all
> vodka-fueled (and, in the villages, despair). Very ugly.
>

Clarify. The passage quoted claims there is much domestic violence in Russia.

Your comment says:

1) Something wrong with that (i.e., it's not true)

2) It is true.

Explain. :-)

Carrol



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