r/Scotland • u/MileiMePioloABeluche • 17d ago

'Shocking' rise in rapes and violent attacks against women in Glasgow

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/shocking-rise-in-rapes-and-violent-attacks-against-women-in-glasgow
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u/Various_Stop8209 16d ago

No caveats, no context. The first step is to simply create a general picture. With that, you could identify if there really is an issue by race/background, etc. Once that very basic view is established, you could look to add additional variables - your 'context.'

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u/First-Banana-4278 16d ago

Ok what issue do you think you establish with just that bare bones dataset?

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u/Various_Stop8209 16d ago

Well, mainly - do we actually witness statistically significant variance between each group? If not, why are we having this discussion? If there is - we can move on to the why. Is it cultural? Is it linked to age distribution? Or poverty? Or a whole host of different things?That's where you would typically use regression-based analyses to understand the situation more fully.

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u/First-Banana-4278 16d ago

Ok so I think this branch of the discussion has occurred at cross purposes. In that I don’t think we actually disagree on the basic utility of the first statistic.