Recently, we published an article titled “Safer by Design, Not by Statistics” that shows why Tennessee’s crime rate isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison with other places—and how it’s often misused to suggest we’re less safe than we really are. You can read it at KingsportSpirit.com.
Another misleading statistic is the poverty rate.
Appalachia is “poorer” than inner-city New York or Los Angeles. That’s what the federal rulebook says. But is it? There’s a fundamental flaw in the data…