sinha said:
I'm reminded of a front page story from the only newspaper in the college town I live in. The story stated that a study had found that 11% of the city's homeless were drug users and 22% were alcoholics. Buried deep in second page of the story was the fact that the homeless population consisted of nine individuals. Instead of "11%" they should have just said "Bill the guy near the 5th Street gas station is a drug user"... |
I saw something similar when doing a report on street youth in college for a sociology class ...
I read a study that talked about the epidemics of drug use, stds, prostitution and broken homes in the street youth population; these are issues for street youth but being that the sample size was 22 people in one neighbourhood in one city in North America the reality is that they couldn't (statistically) make the conclusions that they were making in the study.
