Reply #90: oh dear

[iverglas]

Poor you. Still able (?) only to cut and paste, and not come up with anything in your own words. I mean, that's my charitable guess.

"And since victims report most crimes the police know about, police figures can differ <from country to country> simply because of differences in reporting behaviour."

Yuppers. And survey figures can differ because of lying respondents, respondents with bad memories, respondents with personal motives unknown to surveyors, respondents who misapply the criteria given to them, respondents who simply make mistakes ...

And of course survey results can differ from country simply because of differences in survey-responding behaviour, too.

Too bad you are limited to cutting and pasting. You could maybe have explained to me how the respondents to the survey could have reported more crimes to the police in Canada than the police in Canada actually had reported to them ... or how so many people could have been robbed at gunpoint in Canada and failed to report it to the police (so many more than in the US, apparently) that the difference between firearms robbery rates in Canada and the US -- 12.5% vs. 63% of actual reported robberies, was it? -- could have looked less than "statistically robust" to the surveyors ...

Inquiring minds, doomed to be disappointed.

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