Ok, now, which character from the Simpsons would be capable of reading the causality sequence, understand the math and reliably evaluate the evidence actually given about police efficiency by absence of crime and disorder? Because if Lisa said directly or herself intended the above story to be analogous then I’d call her naive and confused. Given what is known about the relevance of law enforcement, not considering low crime to be—all else even remotely approximating equal—strong evidence about the effectiveness of the police would be utterly absurd.
Ok, now, which character from the Simpsons would be capable of reading the causality sequence, understand the math and reliably evaluate the evidence actually given about police efficiency by absence of crime and disorder?
By my count, three: Lisa, Professor Frink, and “Stephen Hawking” (the caricatured version of himself that Hawking played on the several occasions he guest-starred on the show).
Because if Lisa said directly or herself intended the above story to be analogous then I’d call her naive and confused.
Jumping to Lisa’s defense here, as the quoted dialogue was about the Bear Patrol, a costly government initiative to keep the town safe from bears, launched in response to the only bear sighting in decades. It was army1987 who applied it to regular (human) crime.
Ok, now, which character from the Simpsons would be capable of reading the causality sequence, understand the math and reliably evaluate the evidence actually given about police efficiency by absence of crime and disorder? Because if Lisa said directly or herself intended the above story to be analogous then I’d call her naive and confused. Given what is known about the relevance of law enforcement, not considering low crime to be—all else even remotely approximating equal—strong evidence about the effectiveness of the police would be utterly absurd.
By my count, three: Lisa, Professor Frink, and “Stephen Hawking” (the caricatured version of himself that Hawking played on the several occasions he guest-starred on the show).
Jumping to Lisa’s defense here, as the quoted dialogue was about the Bear Patrol, a costly government initiative to keep the town safe from bears, launched in response to the only bear sighting in decades. It was army1987 who applied it to regular (human) crime.