Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime

Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Probably because all the criminals are too busy posting about scary Muslim knife attacks on X.

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• draco_aeneus@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These two graphs cover different time periods. It looks like the monetization of X lines up with that hump of sharply increased knife crime at the end there.

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• frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think that it’s true specifically because you don’t understand correlation vs causation

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