Some people just don't get statistics...

[scumdog]

I have seen senior officers turn off their radios because they were waiting for their Subway. Mind you I don't like having my lunch interupted either.

Yeah but postal workers don't count in this discusion

and I ain't seen that sort of thing happen outside the movies

[spudchucka]

I have seen senior officers turn off their radios because they were waiting for their Subway. Mind you I don't like having my lunch interupted either.

They are entitled to a meal break and if they have time to take one, (not often the case) they usually log themselves out of service for 1/2 an hour. Sometimes it is wise to turn off radios in public places like Subway because broadcasting to all and sundry isn't always appropriate.

[Lou Girardin]

There's always a reason why the cops can't attend when we need them, but can write 1.2 million traffic tickets a year.
Lou

[spudchucka]

There's always a reason why the cops can't attend when we need them, but can write 1.2 million traffic tickets a year.
Lou

Get over it or change the record, please.

[Drew]

The number of people dying on New Zealand's roads over Easter has
risen for the first time in five years.

Four people - three motorists and one pedestrian - died in road
accidents between Thursday night and 6am on Tuesday morning, when the
long weekend period officially ended.

Until now, the Easter road toll has been slowly dropping since 1999,
when there were seven deaths.

Inspector John Kelly says it is disappointing the toll is one higher
than the past two years.

What a nonsense these sorts of stats are! Ballpark, about one person a day dies as a result of motor vehicle accidents. On this basis, the "holiday road toll" for Easter should be (wait for it) four! (plus or minus).

It is also interesting to note that there is no published "holiday influenza toll", when statistically a similar number of people (four) would have died this weekend from flu-related causes.

It's a fact, that 65%, of all statistics, are misread, or mis interpreted.