No, and in the last 2/3 of a century i have learned how to practice critical and out-of-the-box thinking. Actually, out of the box came before critical. Critical requires self analysis. Something many people never achieve.
You are of course referring to beliefs you don't hold, right
Because your beliefs are "truth".Facts are purer than beliefs. All you need for truth is to have beliefs and ignore everything else.You are of course referring to beliefs you don't hold, right
There is a question of which facts you believe to be true. You have to go through your mental filter to decide what is a fact and what is not. This filter is subjective. And perhaps that is why Democrats and Republicans can come to completely different views on exactly the same topic.
Don't forget in-the-box thinking because outside the box thinking might be wrong.
www.foxnews.com
You can see why I pay closer attention to the NYPD data. They have a strong culture of data collection as being an important part of crime-fighting. Giving the difficulty of getting good data, this is not a large revision. More of a concern is the difference between the DoJ data and the FBI data.
300%
Maybe the Whitehouse is losing control over the FBI and they are going rogue (honest).
People forget that he was the former President and gets real briefings on anything he wants.
The article said that a 2.2% decrease was changed to 4.5% increase. That is a difference of 6.7% in the number of crimes counted compared to the previous year.
Going from -2.1% to +4.5% might seem like just a 6.6 percentage point shift, but since it starts from a small negative number, the actual change is much more significant. It’s really a 300% increase, not just a 6% rise.
You can't compare rates of change like that. If the change was from 0.1% to 1.0%, would you call it a 900% increase? If the change was from 0% to 0.1% would you call it an infinite increase.
Percent of increase.
