This episode of @c4dispatches should be used to warn journalists what happens when you don't take steps to prevent confirmation bias or out-group homogeneity bias in your reporting (or to understand the data you are analysing and concepts like 'average') #AfterDispatches https://twitter.com/C4Dispatches/status/1250833731738382337

The @IRR_News formal complaint to Ofcom highlights some of the statistical issues (btw, I'm assuming the data was sourced from http://data.police.uk 's street level crime reports) https://twitter.com/IRR_News/status/1252357419084050434

More on the data aspect by @profcolinclark here, too: https://twitter.com/profcolinclark/status/1251846435898867712

The first part is a bizarre methodology: "We made a list of Traveller sites where there had been reports of crime, and looked to see if there was crime there. We found that there was indeed crime in the places that we had picked based on their crime reports"