How To Use Statistic
December, 1986
You've seen this before--a retired vice cop or a wild-eyed evangelist starts reciting statistics that supposedly show a correlation between pornography and sex crimes or other forms of violence.A recent letter from Haven Gow, a police reporter, to the editor of The Washington Post charged:"Thirty-six serial murderers interviewed by FBI agents confessed that pornography influenced their thinking and behavior."The Los Angeles Police Department points out that in more than 40 child-sex-ab...
