There's also tons of nuance that doesn't get caught in "feelings" - if the homeless outside your gated community are repeatedly murdering each other, you have a "high crime rate" that you may not care about at all.

But if suddenly they stop murdering each other and only kill you (or someone like you) during the year, the crime rate has gone way, way down, but your perception of it has skyrocketed.

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ronsor 6 hours ago | parent [-]

There's a serious problem where people look at statistics and assume the constituent components are 100% evenly distributed.

This is rarely the case.

	▲	traderj0e 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People keep telling me I'd be safer if I chose a self-driving car, citing overall car crash stats. Those include people who DUI, text while drive, are way too old, or drive a Tesla or Altima, where I'm none of the above.