[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Meaningless without the raw data.

"More than doubled" could be 20,000 to 45,000.

Or it could be 1 to 3.

[samtheman]

Meaningless without the raw data.

“More than doubled” could be 20,000 to 45,000.

Or it could be 1 to 3.

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I agree with you... and I am a strong critic of the use of MJ, as I have expressed many times over the years. I am also against the War on Drugs, which puts me in a tough spot, I know, but I generally end up eliciting angry posts from various pot-heads here on FR.

But anyway, I agree with you. The reporter and editor of this story should BOTH be fired. To publish a story like this without the raw data (what, are they afraid any discussion of actual numbers will cause their brain-dead readers to lose focus and click somewhere else? ... maybe that’s it)...

For them to publish a story like this and leave out the raw data is to announce to the world that they and their organization are MORONS.

[Oatka]

Meaningless without the raw data.

Spot On. I was going to post something similar.

The Brady Bunch used to quote gun crime in percentages instead of numbers. I remember when they touted Clinton's AR ban decreasing crime by those guns by 33%. Turns out those crimes dropped from, IIRC, .66 to ,44 of one percent.