r/MurderedByWords • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • Dec 17 '24

#3 Murder of Week Is he just stupid?

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u/pezx Dec 17 '24

I'm always interested in how they get unreported numbers if they weren't reported.

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u/specfreq Dec 17 '24

I'm probably wrong but I think it comes from statistics. Like when a case study focusing on domestic violence finds that only 35% of domestic violence incidents are reported to the police.

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u/be-kind-re-wind Dec 17 '24

That one’s weird too, we don’t how much 100% is. How would you know what 35% is?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Mix7873 Dec 17 '24

The study figures out what 100% is. That’s the point of the study. And then part of the conclusion is that the number reported correlates to 35% of the total.