{"id":651,"date":"2006-05-24T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T12:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/shouting-at-today\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T12:20:45","slug":"shouting-at-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/shouting-at-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Shouting at Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listen to about half an hour of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/today\">Today<\/a><\/em> as I&#8217;m getting ready each morning. Occasionally, as yesterday morning, I end up shouting at the radio. In this case, it followed a report on whether or not Nottingham is the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/5006852.stm\">crime capital of the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After some discussion about the statistics and where towns figured in the crime table*, John Humphrys asked (from memory): &#8220;But the Government say that crime is going down, don&#8217;t they?&#8221; What did that have to do with anything, I demanded from the stereo. The relative levels of crime in different places in a snapshot of time bears no relation at all to the change of crime frequency over time. The fact that you can produce a report calculating likelihood of being a victim of crime in different geographic locations says absolutely nothing at all about the overall crime rate apart from that there is some crime. Grr.<\/p>\n<p>*The word &#8220;table&#8221; appears to be the 100,000th word on this blog. 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