The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report has Alabama’s murder rate at 7.2 per 100,000 for 2015. The letter’s cited rate of 17.6 for firearm deaths should be lower. In any city, county or state every person has ...

The scent of this paradox hangs around statistics to this day, and accounts for much of the distrust which many people entertain for statistics generally.

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A new measure of Americans’ deep distrust of the media Washington Post-Schar School polling in six swing states found that 7 in 10 voters don’t trust the media to report on politics accurately ...

For example, there are 20 sources more conservative Republicans distrust than trust. That number falls to 15 sources among moderate and liberal Republicans. And though only four sources are trusted ...