Sep 22, 2015 03:09 AM
#1
@Crimsonorblue22 intermittently pastes links to unfortunate crime stories. It made me ask the question in the title of this post. Post any stats here.
Anyone Have Any Crime Stats Indicating College Athletes Are Committing Any More or Any Less Crimes than 10 years ago?
Sep 22, 2015 03:32 AM
#2
@jaybate-1.0 the problem is that many aren't disclosed. For instance, 2 returning starters from our fb team were kicked off this year.
Sep 22, 2015 04:24 AM
#3
Interesting point.
Still, statistics are rarely fully accurate; that is what makes them statistics.
They are approximations of phenomena with degrees of probability.
We cannot catch all the crimes ten years ago.
And we cannot catch all the crimes now.
All we can do is measure what we can, and then make further approximations of how much we may be missing.
Measurement error.
Estimation error. Types I and II.
But an approximation, even if kind of fuzzy, is better than nothing at all.
But the point you raise is still crucial.
Crime measurements have to be adjusted for the tendency not to report a lot of the crime.
Sep 22, 2015 11:22 AM
#5
@Crimsonorblue22 Oh - well THAT explains our problems in football !!
Sep 22, 2015 11:39 AM
#6
Thx! That is a helluva good read. Lots of data.
Sep 22, 2015 02:48 PM
#7
Notice how hush-hush Notre Dame is. They all look like choir boys but there is no disclosure from campus police, where most stuff goes down.
Vegas stole it from ND: "What happens at Notre Dame, stays at Notre Dame!"
I know one thing... down south, football is king. Don't mess with the king! Players are treated like Gods. Don't mess with the Gods!
And who bails these kids out of jail when they do go down? Perhaps a guy in a $10k suit, secretly hired by BigShoe? Many of these guys claim to do it on the cuff... but there is no payout coming later from the players.... these guys are fronted the $s.